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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:39:02 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Peng Tao <tao.peng@....com>,
Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and
XTENSA
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:40:12AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:59:45PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre
> > isn't the first/only driver that needs this?
>
> Lustre is. These are core mm helpers, and lustre uses them to
> reimplement another core VM function. It then uses it to access
> userspace environment variable.
>
> In short all this code should be nuked, and no new symbols should be
> exported.
Ugh, you are right, the lustre code needs to be fixed here.
greg k-h
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