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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, <perex@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 - 5:08 am

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:59:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

There is no fucking reason they should have used it in the first place.
Until we have something like a coherent export API instead of random crap
exported because someone once needed it to do a dumb thing it'll happen.
Only way to avoid it is to merge the driver and shake out their dumb ideas
in the review process.


And I think almost everyone disagrees with you.  We just carry too much
crap around because of your subborness in this issue, and it gets really
annoying to have some high up on the food chain fighting his longly flight
against the other people.
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[-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 4:25 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Sep 9, 4:39 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, David Miller, (Mon Sep 10, 8:18 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Sep 18, 10:10 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 10, 8:21 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Sun Sep 9, 5:59 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 10, 5:08 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 5:23 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 10, 11:14 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Dave Jones, (Tue Sep 25, 5:17 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Al Viro, (Mon Sep 10, 8:43 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 1:25 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 3:58 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 4:17 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 6:18 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 6:15 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 6:41 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 6:56 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Alan Cox, (Mon Sep 10, 1:44 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 1:54 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Greg KH, (Thu Sep 13, 7:23 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Alan Cox, (Mon Sep 10, 8:31 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 8:03 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 6:22 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Sep 9, 6:41 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 7:18 pm)