linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-mm1: ppc32: too few arguments to function 'reserve

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Message-ID: <20080205132526.GC31523@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:25:27 +0100
From:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-mm1: ppc32: too few arguments to function
	'reserve_bootmem'

* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> [2008-02-04 23:40]:
> We did this wrong.  We should have introduced a new reserve_bootmem_foo()
> and migrated over to that in stages.  Once all callers are migrated, remove
> the old interface.

Well, my original proposal was to add a new function but then someone
complained that we already have too much bootmem functions. I don't
remember if this was on LKML or internally in Bugzilla.

However, sorry, it was my fault of course.


        Bernhard
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