linux-kernel - Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll

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Date:	Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:06:16 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:36:28 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:05:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:14:30 +0200
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > A commit that does nothing except for adding two unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
> > > 
> > > Without any rationale why they should be exported.
> > 
> > Don't look at me.  This has been sitting in my tree for nearly two years as
> > part of the reiser4 patchset.  It may not even be needed any more.  I guess
> > Ingo went on a fishing expedition and liked the change.
> >...
> 
> Sorry Andrew.
> 
> I misunderstood the patch flow.
> 
> And much more important, the tone of my email was not appropriate.
> 
> Due to unrelated reasons I was Thursday evening in a mood in which I 
> should not have left emails out of my postponed folder without sleeping 
> a night over them.

I know the feeling.

> I hope you accept my apology.

No probs.  But it's not really needed - this is lkml.  We shout at each
other, get over it and get on with stuff.
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