On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:14:39 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:15:04 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Andrew, what is the policy for adding exports for out of tree GPL code? > > > > > > > There isn't one. Such things cause way too much email. > > Lack of policy causes the same thing (ie. this thread). > > > What complete_all() does is to permit more than one task to wait on a > > completion and for all those tasks to be woken by a single complete(). > > Without it you'd need to record how many tasks are sleeping there and do > > complete() that many times. > > > > So it's a sensible part of the completion API from a regularity-of-the-API > > This function was already part of in-kernel API, just wasn't exported > for modules because there were no in-kernel users. > > > POV. We use it in the coredump code and I don't think we'd be likely to > > want > > to rip it out.
It was my misunderstanding w.r.t. 'We' here... > OK, I understand that the unwritten policy is the following: > symbols for out-of-tree code used by OSDL are fine. 8) /me takes this bad joke back and says sorry to Andrew > > In fact, I'd say that complete() should have always done it this way... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
