Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:14:30 -0500 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 2/3] Export get_one_pte_map. |
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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. 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?
Thanks, Robin
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