From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:42:51 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Message-Id: <20031126044251.3b8309c1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031126085123.A1952@infradead.org> References: <20031125211518.6f656d73.akpm@osdl.org> <20031126085123.A1952@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Christoph Hellwig 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. -- 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: aart@kvack.org