From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>,
paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-mm1: ppc32: too few arguments to function 'reserve_bootmem'
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:25:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080205132526.GC31523@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080204144036.cf22a402.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [2008-02-04 23:40]:
> We did this wrong. We should have introduced a new reserve_bootmem_foo()
> and migrated over to that in stages. Once all callers are migrated, remove
> the old interface.
Well, my original proposal was to add a new function but then someone
complained that we already have too much bootmem functions. I don't
remember if this was on LKML or internally in Bugzilla.
However, sorry, it was my fault of course.
Bernhard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-05 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080203171634.58ab668b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-04 20:29 ` 2.6.24-mm1: ppc32: too few arguments to function 'reserve_bootmem' Mariusz Kozlowski
2008-02-04 22:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05 13:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-05 13:25 ` Bernhard Walle [this message]
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