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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] shmem: use call_once()
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:15:38 +0000 (GMT)
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This patch defers mounting tmpfs till shmem_file_setup() is
> called first time by using call_once().

Please explain why we might need this patch: is something changing
elsewhere?  Or are you misled by that "module_init(init_tmpfs)"
into thinking that mm/shmem.c is sometimes built modular?

Hugh