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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules.
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:11:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070103201123.GA1097@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070103110332.ba3d39a2.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:03:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not
> invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages()
> because of its range specification ability...
> 
> akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an
> inlined wrapper.

What about just killing invalidate_inode_pages()?  It only has about
a dozend callers, and it's already rather misnamed since it actually
operates on an address_space, not an inode.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-03 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-01 23:28 [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules Anton Altaparmakov
2007-01-03 13:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-03 18:58   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-01-03 19:03   ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-03 20:11     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-01-03 20:44       ` Andrew Morton

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