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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 10:08:19 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
Peng Tao <tao.peng@....com>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and
XTENSA
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 09:39:02AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:40:12AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:59:45PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre
> > > isn't the first/only driver that needs this?
> >
> > Lustre is. These are core mm helpers, and lustre uses them to
> > reimplement another core VM function. It then uses it to access
> > userspace environment variable.
> >
> > In short all this code should be nuked, and no new symbols should be
> > exported.
>
> Ugh, you are right, the lustre code needs to be fixed here.
>
Given that, should I send another patch marking it as BROKEN again ?
Guenter
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