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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mm/swap_state.c: unexport swapper_space
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:09:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308090943.A26847@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050306224912.GE5827@infradead.org>; from hch@infradead.org on Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:49:12PM +0000

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:49:12PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I disagree.  swapper_state is far too much of an internal detail to be
> exported.  I argued that way when page_mapping was changed to use it and
> that's why the architectures moved their helpers out of line.
> Looks like the exported unfortunately got added anyway although we settled
> that discussion.

Well, since ARM's usage of page_mapping() is out of line (which is
where it'll now stay) I think Christoph is correct.  Maybe this is
something which should be aired on linux-arch for the other arch
maintainers?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-06 14:47 [2.6 patch] mm/swap_state.c: unexport swapper_space Adrian Bunk
2005-03-06 15:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-06 22:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-08  9:09     ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-08 11:45       ` Hugh Dickins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-25  1:11 Adrian Bunk

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