From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Jambor <jambormartin@gmail.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pagevec_lookup_tag() and pagevec_release() substitutes and an OOM
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:55:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139410540.9925.1.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060207234814.018b7045.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 23:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Martin Jambor <jambormartin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > However, why are not pagevec functions exported for modules?
> >
>
> Nothing in-kernel uses them. If/when your fs is merged, we can export them.
As of 2.6.16-rc1, they are exported. cifs now uses them.
> If your fs is GPL and reasonably serious/useful then perhaps we could
> export them now, although there are no guarantees that we won't change them
> or remove them or whatever in the future.
Thanks,
Shaggy
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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2006-02-08 0:29 pagevec_lookup_tag() and pagevec_release() substitutes and an OOM Martin Jambor
2006-02-08 5:01 ` Martin Jambor
2006-02-08 7:48 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 14:55 ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
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