Re: [Patch 2/3] Export get_one_pte_map.

Robin Holt
2005-10-17T11:39:04Z

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:31:31AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:30:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:22:25PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_one_pte_map);
> > >
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() ?
> >
> > Not sure why it would fall that way. Looking at the directory,
> > I get:
>
> This is a very lowlevel export for things that poke deep into VM
> internals, so _GPL makes sense. In fact not allowing modular builds
> of the mspec driver might make even more sense.

That would be acceptable as well. I was just looking for a way to
minimize kernel sizes for ia64 machines that don't need these
devices and therefore would not load the module. Just looking at
it from a distro perspective. What is the concensus?

Thanks,
Robin