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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: pagevec_lookup_tag() and pagevec_release() substitutes and an
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 23:48:14 -0800
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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.

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.