Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:25:03 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's |
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:10:10PM -0500, Dan Dennedy wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 02:53 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The patch below removes 41 unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's. > > Unneeded according to whom, just you? These functions are part of an > API. How do I know someone is not using these in a custom ieee1394 > kernel module in some industrial or research setting or something new > under development to be contributed to linux1394 project?
If someone uses some of them in code to be contributed to the linux1394 project, re-adding the EXPORT_SYMBOL's in question is trivial.
If someone uses some of them in a custom setting, re-adding them is trivial, too.
If the only user of one or more of these EXPORT_SYMBOL's was a non-free module, it's kernel policy that the EXPORT_SYMBOL's in question have to be removed.
cu Adrian
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