linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] padata: section cleanup

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Message-Id: <20100331180445.98dbcb55.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:04:45 -0400
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@...htwindheim.de>,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] padata: section cleanup

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:24:40 +0800 Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:58:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > (wtf?)
> > 
> > OK, on behalf of thousands I ask: what the heck is kernel/padata.c? 
> > 
> > Seems to have popped up in 2.6.34, positioned as generic kernel-wide
> > code only it has been secreted away on the linux-crypto list.  Please
> > don't do this.
> 
> It was posted to linux-kernel multiple times.
> 

I can find it once, in December 2009, in the middle of a massive thread
called "workqueue thing".  It had no replies.

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