From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] mm: deprecate vmalloc_to_pfn
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:03:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420130315.1911ab42.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060420173616.GE21660@wotan.suse.de>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:22:40PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:06:30PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Deprecate vmalloc_to_pfn.
> >
> > I don't think there's any point to even keep it. There's a trivial replcement.
>
> It is exported, is the only thing. I tend to stick my head in the sand
> with these matters, and try to go with whatever I think will help Andrew
> merge it.
>
> If nobody cares, I'd just as soon remove it completely.
It's been in there for a long time. Theoretically we should mark it
deprecated, kill it in six months or so.
But vmalloc_to_page() is EXPORT_SYMBOLed, so fixing up downstream breakage
will be so trivial it's hardly worth bothering. So let's zap vmalloc_to_pfn()
in 2.6.18.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 17:06 [patch 0/5] mm: improve remapping of vmalloc regions Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 1/5] mm: remap_vmalloc_range Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-20 17:33 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 18:09 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 2/5] mm: deprecate vmalloc_to_pfn Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-20 17:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 20:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 3/5] mm: remove rvmalloc Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 4/5] mm: extra remap_vmalloc_range check Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:07 ` [patch 5/5] drivers: leave vm_flags alone Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:27 ` [patch 6/5] mm: find_vm_area locking fixes Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 18:14 ` [patch][rfc] improve remap_vmalloc_range callers' return values Nick Piggin
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