Re: [patch 10/13] remove add_to_page_cache_unique()

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 13:17:41 EST

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On Wednesday 17 July 2002 07:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A tasty patch from Hugh Dickens. radix_tree_insert() fails if something
> was already present at the target index, so that error can be
> propagated back through add_to_page_cache(). Hence
> add_to_page_cache_unique() is obsolete.
>
> Hugh's patch removes add_to_page_cache_unique() and cleans up a bunch of
> stuff.

:-) A large bouquet to Hugh, and another to Momchil Velikov for recoring the
whole interface in the first place.

-- 
Daniel
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