From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: zwane@linuxpower.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER?
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:29:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E91C398.9070400@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030407064755.DEAD62C06C@lists.samba.org>
Rusty Russell wrote:
> I thought it was completely useless, hence deprecated.
>
> Anyone have any reason to defend it?
It's used to allow source compatibility with all kernels, old or new.
Thus it is in active use, and should not be removed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-07 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-07 6:47 SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-07 8:17 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-07 18:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-04-08 2:01 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-08 2:16 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-08 3:41 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-08 4:39 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-09 0:46 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-09 2:32 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-08 2:27 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-08 3:46 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-08 6:00 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-08 11:51 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Alan Cox
2003-04-08 14:46 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jamie Lokier
2003-04-08 15:12 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-08 16:45 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jamie Lokier
2003-04-08 17:19 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
[not found] <3E92515B.6030807@pobox.com>
2003-04-08 12:25 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-09 0:13 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? David S. Miller
2003-04-09 1:03 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-09 3:23 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-09 3:48 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-09 15:00 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Kai Germaschewski
[not found] <3E93AA3D.4050104@pobox.com>
2003-04-09 5:27 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
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