Re: Remove init_mm export as planned for 2.6.26

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jul 13 2008 - 22:37:31 EST


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:30:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > -EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(init_mm); /* will be removed in 2.6.26 */
> >
> > /*
> > * Initial thread structure.
> >
>
> grep -r init_mm include/asm-sparc64
>
> This patch used to break stuff. I'm not aware that anything was done
> to prevent this.

Dave's patch only unexprts it on x86, which per defintion can't break
sparc64 which is known to need this export. It would be nice if someone
could do a little audit which architectures require it in addition to
sparc64 and remove it fromm all others.
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