Re: [PATCH] Drop "init_mm" from being exported viaEXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:31:20PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> 
>   since this was listed as removable as of 2.6.26, does that mean its
> removal can go into an appropriate tree now?  or would that mean
> *after* the release of 2.6.26?

Davem mentioned this has valid use-cases on non-x86 architectures
because it's exposed through mm macros.  So please audit it's users and
make sure the export is only dropped for architectures where it's not
actually needed.
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