Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 May 2006 00:18:03 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] kernel/sys.c: possible cleanups |
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
Please avoid mixing together cleanups
> - proper prototypes for the following functions: > - ctrl_alt_del() (in include/linux/reboot.h) > - getrusage() (in include/linux/resource.h) > - make the following needlessly global functions static: > - kernel_restart_prepare() > - kernel_kexec()
which I will apply, together with API changes
> - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL: > - in_egroup_p > - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL's: > - kernel_restart > - kernel_halt
which I will not.
We have a process for the latter. And even if we ignore that process, the patch ends up sitting in -mm for ages because of the API change, along with the cleanups, which could be merged up promptly.
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