Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:50:34 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported? |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > And that from a person who on the other hand wants to introduce (and > > tries to force on other people) deprecation periods for unused > > EXPORT_SYMBOL's. > > why does this bother you? The API makes total sense. This is a > completely sensible API (with a full implementation) to use > non-temporal copies. I mean, if this was some legacy API that nobody > uses anymore i'd agree, but this is about the ability to access > user-space memory via SSE2+ non-temporal stores.
Adrian, you have still not answered the (obvious) question: why do such currently-unused exports bother you?
Ingo
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