From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:42:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126044251.3b8309c1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031126085123.A1952@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:15:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +invalidate_mmap_range-non-gpl-export.patch
> >
> > Export invalidate_mmap_range() to all modules
>
> Why?
The individual patches in the broken-out/ directory are usually
changelogged. This one says:
It was EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), however IBM's GPFS is not GPL.
- the GPFS team contributed to the testing and development of
invaldiate_mmap_range().
- GPFS was developed under AIX and was ported to Linux, and hence meets
Linus's "some binary modules are OK" exemption.
- The export makes sense: clustering filesystems need it for shootdowns to
ensure cache coherency.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 5:15 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-11-26 8:51 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-26 12:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-11-26 13:09 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-26 13:21 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 13:23 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-26 13:25 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 13:29 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-11-26 13:25 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-26 16:23 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-26 19:07 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Mike Fedyk
2003-11-26 22:28 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-26 22:40 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-26 9:46 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-11-26 17:27 ` 2.6.0-test10-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
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