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From: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mnutter@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] spufs: The SPU file system, base
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:38:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511161538.17507.arndb@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051115212638.5dca4a66.akpm@osdl.org>

On Middeweken 16 November 2005 06:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Why?  What have you got against MOL? :)
> > 
> 
> The export was moved to mm/memory.c.   No explanation why though...
> 
Sorry about the lack of explanation. There was a short discussion
about this in August, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/8/205 :

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:42:03 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: 
> I don't see any reason not to make it global if there are two
> architectures that need it. Especially as long as it's marked GPL-only so 
> that people don't start misusing it.

The __handle_mm_fault symbol is used by spu_base.ko because
the DMA page fault handler calls handle_mm_fault.

Of course at the point where ppc_ksyms.c gets merged into arch/powerpc,
there would again only be one architecture needing it...

	Arnd <><

      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-15 20:53 [PATCH 0/5] SPU file system for 2.6.15-rc-mm Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-15 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] spufs: switchable spu contexts Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-15 20:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] kernel-side context switch code for spufs Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-15 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] spufs: add spu-side context switch code Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-15 20:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] spufs: cooperative scheduler support Arnd Bergmann
     [not found] ` <20051115210408.327453000@localhost>
2005-11-16  1:41   ` [PATCH 1/5] spufs: The SPU file system, base Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 14:26     ` [PATCH] spufs: Make all exports GPL-only Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-16  5:15   ` [PATCH 1/5] spufs: The SPU file system, base Paul Mackerras
2005-11-16  5:26     ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 14:38       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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