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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Slab API: Remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:53:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070724175332.41ade708.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241705380.9633@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c:197: error: conflicting types for 'pmd_ctor'
> > include/asm/pgtable.h:43: error: previous declaration of 'pmd_ctor' was here
> 
> Ahh. External declaration of pmd_ctor missed in .h. Patch follows. 

<regards it in terror>

> > Now is the 100% worst time to merge this sort of thing btw: I get to carry
> > it for two months while the world churns.  Around the -rc7 timeframe would 
> > be better.
> 
> We just got rid of the destructor parameter of kmem_cache_create.

Yeah, but that got merged into mainline.  It's too late to merge this one.

> It would 
> be consistent to  also get rid of the useless flag in the ctor at the 
> same time.

Honest, it's easier for everyone if we shelve this until late -rc's.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-24  5:48 Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24  7:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-25  0:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-25  0:53     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-25  3:15       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-25 10:33         ` Pekka Enberg
2007-07-25 18:56           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-14 22:17 Christoph Lameter

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