From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267469AbUBSSim (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:38:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267466AbUBSSil (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:38:41 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38847 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267469AbUBSSi2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:38:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:38:22 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Message-ID: <20040219183821.GA1935@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040218140021.GB1269@us.ibm.com> <20040218211035.A13866@infradead.org> <20040218150607.GE1269@us.ibm.com> <20040218222138.A14585@infradead.org> <20040218145132.460214b5.akpm@osdl.org> <20040218230055.A14889@infradead.org> <20040218162858.2a230401.akpm@osdl.org> <20040219123110.A22406@infradead.org> <20040219091129.GD1269@us.ibm.com> <20040219183210.GX14000@marowsky-bree.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5vNYLRcllDrimb99" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040219183210.GX14000@marowsky-bree.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:32:10PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > A rule of thumb might be whether any code in the tree uses a given > export, and if not, prune it. Anything which even we don't use or export > across the user-land boundary certainly qualifies as a kernel interna. political issues aside, this sounds like a decent rule-of-thumb in general; if NO module uses it, it is most likely the wrong API (for example obsoleted API left around) or something really internal. --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANQKcxULwo51rQBIRAmFZAJ4+fydVzl9fr0cFnGo6mf8/JMdp5QCgoAsw x42ySutl48VR3Yo8m6bljlg= =ylm8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--