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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-28 20:19:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-29 18:55:42 +0100 |
| commit | 757265b8c57bb8fd91785d3d1a87fb483c86c9c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 49f703d8149df1864b44ef7f5a2df1c01aa94eac | |
| parent | b16bf712f491808a8c926dd481c696fe7d73ee5a (diff) | |
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x86: delay the export removal of init_mm
delay the removal of this symbol export by one more kernel release,
giving external modules such as VirtualBox a chance to stop using it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index ba899ff2a8f9..c1d1fd0c299b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -316,3 +316,15 @@ Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code. Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> + +--------------------------- + +What: init_mm export +When: 2.6.26 +Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to + work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved + by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code + of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such + code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some + out-of-tree driver. +Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c b/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c index 5b3ce7934363..3d01e47777db 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ static struct files_struct init_files = INIT_FILES; static struct signal_struct init_signals = INIT_SIGNALS(init_signals); static struct sighand_struct init_sighand = INIT_SIGHAND(init_sighand); struct mm_struct init_mm = INIT_MM(init_mm); +EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(init_mm); /* will be removed in 2.6.26 */ /* * Initial thread structure. |