From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com (mail-ob0-f170.google.com [209.85.214.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD55A6B0036 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 17:06:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id uy5so8532978obc.1 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 14:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from g4t3427.houston.hp.com (g4t3427.houston.hp.com. [15.201.208.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o4si21128764obi.87.2014.05.26.14.06.15 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 26 May 2014 14:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1401138312.12982.6.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/process_vm_access: move into ipc/ From: Davidlohr Bueso In-Reply-To: References: <20140524135925.32597.45754.stgit@zurg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:05:12 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro 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 > > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org