Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules.

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:03:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not
> invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages()
> because of its range specification ability...
> 
> akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an
> inlined wrapper.

What about just killing invalidate_inode_pages()?  It only has about
a dozend callers, and it's already rather misnamed since it actually
operates on an address_space, not an inode.
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