Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:23:59 -0600 | From | Corey Minyard <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] small IPMI cleanup |
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>these functions that are perhaps not in the kernel yet (and perhaps >>never make it into the mainstream kernel). Some of the statics do need >>to be cleaned up, though. >> >> > >Why shouldn't they make it into the mainstream kernel? > > Sometimes people create specific tools that only support a specific type of board. I'm not sure every single thing written to go into the kernel should be included i nthe mainstream kernel. It's a hard call, but if it for some very specific thing then the vendor may not be interested in doing this.
> > >>The IPMI driver was designed so that in-kernel users can use it as >>easily as userland users. So these are important parts of the interface. >> >> > >For userland users, a global kernel function (even if EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed) >is useless. > > Right, but it has to be there for the in-kernel users.
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