From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/process_vm_access: move into ipc/
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:05:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401138312.12982.6.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1405261210140.3411@eggly.anvils>
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 12:16 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2014, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>
> > "CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH" and mm/process_vm_access.c seems misnamed and misplaced.
> > Actually it's a kind of IPC and it has no more relation to MM than sys_read().
> > This patch moves code into ipc/ and config option into init/Kconfig.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
>
> I disagree, and SysV's ipc/ isn't where I would expect to find it.
> How about we just leave it where it is in mm?
Agreed, the ipc directory is only for sysv and posix IPC, mm is much
more suitable.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-24 13:59 Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-26 19:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-05-26 19:53 ` Al Viro
2014-05-26 19:59 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-26 20:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-05-26 21:05 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
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