linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:11:23 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules.

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:03:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not
> invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages()
> because of its range specification ability...
> 
> akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an
> inlined wrapper.

What about just killing invalidate_inode_pages()?  It only has about
a dozend callers, and it's already rather misnamed since it actually
operates on an address_space, not an inode.
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