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Message-ID: <e2e108260804222312u673df0bbic3e30089f1d4a238@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:12:41 +0200
From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc: "Philipp Reisner" <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Lars Ellenberg" <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
Subject: Re: Unexport of blk_get_queue and blk_put_queue
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > I noticed that blk_get_queue and blk_put_queue were unexported in the
> > 2.6.25 kernel. Are you aware that this breaks DRBD (an out-of-tree
> > kernel module) ?
>
> no, I verify that my patches don't break Linus' tree and often also peek
> at -mm, but not at external modules.
>
> And I'm a proponent of "no stable kernel API, but as many external
> modules as reasonably possible should be part of the kernel", so emails
> like yours are always a good point to start asking why the code isn't in
> Linus' tree.
>
> What happened to DRBD?
> It didn't seem that far from getting merged half a year ago.
You mean this message: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/21/255 ?
(Added Lars Ellenberg in CC.)
Bart.
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