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Message-ID: <46E5C21C.8040609@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:15:56 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, perex@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}

On 09/11/2007 12:18 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:17:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

>> There is no benefit in making some rigid set of rules.
> 
> Is is considered beneficial to provide API stability for external 
> modules or not?

If I may...

Yes, it is. Just not at any significant cost and Andrew is saying that he 
considers the _UNUSED() thing not significant.

Rene.
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