Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. | From | (Jonathan Corbet) | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:43:24 -0700 |
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Rusty said:
> Well, introduce an EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL(). It's a lot less code. But you'd > still need to show that people are having trouble knowing what APIs to use.
Might the recent discussion on the exporting of sys_open() and sys_read() be an example here? There would appear to be a consensus that people should not have used those functions, but they are now proving difficult to unexport.
Perhaps the best use of the namespace stuff might be for *future* exports which are needed to help make the mainline kernel fully modular, but which are not meant to be part of a more widely-used API?
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