From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:55:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807011355.51049.knikanth@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48691AA2.7050201@oracle.com>
On Monday 30 June 2008 23:10:50 Zach Brown wrote:
> Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> writes:
> >> remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()
> >
> > Seems like it's time to just get rid of it. See:
> > http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.0/0048.html
> > for an explanation of why it's still there.
>
> Yeah, I'm still of the opinion that the cost of having to resurrect it
> if it's needed again isn't significant enough to keep it in the tree
> without callers.
>
Can't this function be kept as part of the out-of-tree patch itself? Or is it
a module that requires this symbol? I do not see a EXPORT_SYMBOL*() for this,
so it cannot be a module depending on this func!?
Thanks
Nikanth Karthikesan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-26 11:10 [PATCH] aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs() Nikanth Karthikesan
2008-06-27 13:15 ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-30 17:40 ` Zach Brown
2008-07-01 8:25 ` Nikanth Karthikesan [this message]
2008-07-01 8:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
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