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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:06:12 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> To: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com> Cc: per.liden@...csson.com, allan.stephens@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tipc-discussion] [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/tipc/: possible cleanups On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:08:08PM +0000, Jon Maloy wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >This patch contains the following possible cleanups: > >- make needlessly global functions static > >- #if 0 unused functions > > > > > Thanks. I think most of those were due for our next release, anyway. But > we'll > get it in, one way or another. > > >- remove all EXPORT_SYMBOL's > > > >My impression is that most of this might have users that are not yet > >submitted for inclusion in the kernel - one year after TIPC was merged. > > > > > Not quite. The exported symbols belong to a public API for driver > programmers. > We know about several users of this API, and there will be more, but I > don't think > any of them are aspiring to have their code be included in the kernel. >... Why not? The goal is to get as many drivers as possible included in the kernel. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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