From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: "buddy.zhang" <buddy.zhang@aliyun.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/cma.c: find a named CMA area by name
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 07:28:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200117062813.GE19428@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6EE060CC-A19D-4F9D-BE36-14CB20C44AE2@aliyun.com>
On Fri 17-01-20 10:16:46, buddy.zhang wrote:
[...]
> So, if device want to use a special named CMA area on module,
> "cma_find_by_name()" need export symbols.
My question was whether there actually is any device that would like to
use this functionality. Your patch doesn't add any and there is no
reference to any either. We do not add exports for the functionality
which is not used in the tree.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-17 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-16 10:13 [PATCH] mm/cma.c: find a named CMA area by name buddy.zhang
2020-01-16 12:12 ` Michal Hocko
2020-01-17 2:16 ` buddy.zhang
2020-01-17 6:28 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
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2020-01-14 7:51 buddy.zhang
2020-01-14 9:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-14 10:08 ` buddy.zhang
2020-01-16 4:21 ` kbuild test robot
2020-01-17 4:17 ` kbuild test robot
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