Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Feb 02 2008 - 17:07:00 EST


On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:36:28 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:05:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:14:30 +0200
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > A commit that does nothing except for adding two unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
> > >
> > > Without any rationale why they should be exported.
> >
> > Don't look at me. This has been sitting in my tree for nearly two years as
> > part of the reiser4 patchset. It may not even be needed any more. I guess
> > Ingo went on a fishing expedition and liked the change.
> >...
>
> Sorry Andrew.
>
> I misunderstood the patch flow.
>
> And much more important, the tone of my email was not appropriate.
>
> Due to unrelated reasons I was Thursday evening in a mood in which I
> should not have left emails out of my postponed folder without sleeping
> a night over them.

I know the feeling.

> I hope you accept my apology.

No probs. But it's not really needed - this is lkml. We shout at each
other, get over it and get on with stuff.
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