From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:39:04 -0500 From: Robin Holt Subject: Re: [Patch 2/3] Export get_one_pte_map. Message-ID: <20051017113904.GB30898@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> References: <20051014192111.GB14418@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <20051014192225.GD14418@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <20051014213038.GA7450@kroah.com> <20051017113131.GA30898@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <20051017113601.GA25434@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051017113601.GA25434@infradead.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig , Robin Holt , Greg KH , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, wli@holomorphy.com, Dave Hansen , Jack Steiner List-ID: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:31:31AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:30:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:22:25PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_one_pte_map); > > > > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() ? > > > > Not sure why it would fall that way. Looking at the directory, > > I get: > > This is a very lowlevel export for things that poke deep into VM > internals, so _GPL makes sense. In fact not allowing modular builds > of the mspec driver might make even more sense. That would be acceptable as well. I was just looking for a way to minimize kernel sizes for ia64 machines that don't need these devices and therefore would not load the module. Just looking at it from a distro perspective. What is the concensus? Thanks, Robin -- 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