From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Kleikamp Subject: Re: pagevec_lookup_tag() and pagevec_release() substitutes and an OOM Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:55:39 -0600 Message-ID: <1139410540.9925.1.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> References: <9615ac9b0602071629y5054dc07w8d1f18e070b0b01f@mail.gmail.com> <9615ac9b0602072101i527eac16jfb956a9437df493d@mail.gmail.com> <20060207234814.018b7045.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Martin Jambor , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:46267 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030428AbWBHOzm (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:55:42 -0500 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k18Etfts013532 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:55:41 -0500 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id k18Ew8iN159546 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:58:08 -0700 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k18Etemr017681 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:55:41 -0700 To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20060207234814.018b7045.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 23:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Martin Jambor 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