Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules.

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>

To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules.

Date: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 - 4:11 pm

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:03:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
quoted text> It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not
> invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages()
> because of its range specification ability...
> 
> akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an
> inlined wrapper.

What about just killing invalidate_inode_pages()?  It only has about
a dozend callers, and it's already rather misnamed since it actually
operates on an address_space, not an inode.
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[2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules., Anton Altaparmakov, (Mon Jan 1, 7:28 pm)

Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules., Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Jan 3, 9:29 am)

Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules., Anton Altaparmakov, (Wed Jan 3, 2:58 pm)

Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules., Andrew Morton, (Wed Jan 3, 3:03 pm)

Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules., Christoph Hellwig, (Wed Jan 3, 4:11 pm)

Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules., Andrew Morton, (Wed Jan 3, 4:44 pm)

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