linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: vmalloc: export __vmalloc_node

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Message-Id: <20240718143924.43e22f68cf639b064a83f118@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:39:24 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Mary Strodl <mstrodl@...edom.csh.rit.edu>, Christoph Hellwig
 <hch@...radead.org>, Mary Strodl <mstrodl@....rit.edu>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, urezki@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 lee@...nel.org, andi.shyti@...nel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
 s.hauer@...gutronix.de, christian.gmeiner@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: vmalloc: export __vmalloc_node_range

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:35:02 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 02:31:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The hardware is weird, but we should try to support it in some fashion.
> 
> Why?  It's been around since 2005, and Linux has done perfectly well
> without support for it. 

Oh.  I was assuming it was some new thing.  This does weaken the case
a lot.