linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Consolidate init

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Message-ID: <20090329175903.GB26405@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:59:03 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consolidate init_mm definition

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:38:57AM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:51:16AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >* create mm/init-mm.c, move init_mm there
> >* remove INIT_MM, initialize init_mm with C99 initializer
> >* unexport init_mm on all arches:
> >
> >  init_mm is already unexported on x86.
> >
> >  One strange place is some OMAP driver (drivers/video/omap/) which
> >  won't build modular, but it's already wants get_vm_area() export.
> >  Somebody should look there.
> >
> 
> Nice patch!
> 
> I don't know if my reply is too late or not.
> But, do we need a new C file just to hold the init_mm definition?

I dunno. I thought where could I stick it, and all files looked alien?
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