netdev - Re: [PATCH] libertas: Don't mark exported symbols as static

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Message-Id: <1202565155.15334.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:52:35 -0500
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: Don't mark exported symbols as static

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 23:48 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:01:02PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >  > Why not pull the exports? they aren't used anywhere in the existing kernel.
> > 
> > I'm guessing there's some not-(yet-)merged mesh networking stuff that
> > uses the symbols, but it doesn't matter much to me...
> 
> The general rule is to not keep symbols for out of tree stuff, so
> removing the exports makes more sense.

If they aren't used in the in-kernel driver, just kill the export
statements.

Dan

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