Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all otherachitectures and kill notifier cruft"

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 02:23:20 EST


From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:19:45 +0100

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:55:20AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > now because Linus said send him a patch to revert regressions rather than
> > just complain,
>
> this is not a regression by any definition. You were abusing exported
> symbols for out of tree junk, so you'll lose.

And furthermore, they don't even need it, use a kprobe.
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