Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] unexport is_console_locked | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:51:30 +1000 |
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On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 16:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. > > > > Is needed for WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED(). > > It just happens that WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() is currently only using in > vt.c, which just happens to not support modular usage. > > But disabling this export would make WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() pretty useless > for driver development. > > So I'd suggest that we either leave this symbol exported for driver > developers or we nuke WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() altogether. > > Ben, do you still want it?
Yes, I do. Please, keep it exported. On that note, I don't understand that frenzy of unexporting everything you can, I find this useless burden in general.
Ben.
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