From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:20:34 -0700 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [Patch 2/3] Export get_one_pte_map. Message-ID: <20051017152034.GA32286@kroah.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> <1129549312.32658.32.camel@localhost> <20051017114730.GC30898@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <20051017151430.GA2564@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051017151430.GA2564@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Robin Holt Cc: Hugh Dickins , Dave Hansen , ia64 list , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , hch@infradead.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, William Lee Irwin III , Nick Piggin , Carsten Otte , Jack Steiner List-ID: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:14:30AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:33:53PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Robin Holt wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:41:52PM +0200, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 06:31 -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); > > > > > > I got a little push from our internal incident tracking system for > > > this being a module. _GPL it will be. > > > > Sorry, Robin, I've not been following your patches. But if you look > > at 2.6.14-rc4-mm1, you'll find that there isn't even a get_one_pte_map > > there. Though there's no certainty yet that my pt locking changes, or > > Nick's PageReserved changes, will actually go forward, there's a lot of > > work queued up in -mm that is likely to affect your code. And I don't > > think exporting internal functions from mremap.c, _GPL or otherwise, > > is the way to go. > > I am currently getting pressure from my management to get something > checked into the tree for 2.6.15. Your management seems to not understand how kernel development works :) > Would it be reasonable to ask that the current patch be included and > then I work up another patch which introduces a ->nopfn type change > for the -mm tree? The stuff in -mm is what is going to be in .15, so you have to work off of that patchset if you wish to have something for .15. Good luck, greg k-h -- 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