From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:50:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080201095034.GA29960@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080131203122.GA6457@elte.hu>
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > And that from a person who on the other hand wants to introduce (and
> > tries to force on other people) deprecation periods for unused
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
>
> why does this bother you? The API makes total sense. This is a
> completely sensible API (with a full implementation) to use
> non-temporal copies. I mean, if this was some legacy API that nobody
> uses anymore i'd agree, but this is about the ability to access
> user-space memory via SSE2+ non-temporal stores.
Adrian, you have still not answered the (obvious) question: why do such
currently-unused exports bother you?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 20:14 x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported? Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31 20:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-01 9:50 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-31 21:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-31 21:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 21:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-02 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-04 19:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-10 22:16 ` Adrian Bunk
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