linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] fs/drop_caches.c: make 2 functions static

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:45:03 +1100
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/drop_caches.c: make 2 functions static

On Monday February 18, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:17:46 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
> > - drop_pagecache()
> > - drop_slab()
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
..
> 
> This was originally done because Neil said that he planned to use these in
> nfsd.  I guess that didn't happen, and an additional patch would be needed
> here anyway to do the module exports.  So....  zap.

Did I?  I wonder why.  Neither my memory or my mail archive gives me
any hints, so I suspect it must have just been a passing fancy that
resolved into a really dumb idea (as so many passing fancies do).

Zap-supported-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

Hmmm... I guess that should really be

  Acked-By: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
;-)

NeilBrown
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