Re: [PATCH] mm/process_vm_access: move into ipc/

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 12:16 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2014, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> 
> > "CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH" and mm/process_vm_access.c seems misnamed and misplaced.
> > Actually it's a kind of IPC and it has no more relation to MM than sys_read().
> > This patch moves code into ipc/ and config option into init/Kconfig.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I disagree, and SysV's ipc/ isn't where I would expect to find it.
> How about we just leave it where it is in mm?

Agreed, the ipc directory is only for sysv and posix IPC, mm is much
more suitable.

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