Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Modutils 2.5 change, start running this command now | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:14:41 +0100 |
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kaos@ocs.com.au said: > I was going to do it that way. The problem is that it gives no > indication if the module has been checked or not. Adding > EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS says that somebody has reviewed the module and > decided that exporting no symbols is the correct behaviour. It is the > difference between no maintainer and a maintained module.
If all you want to know is whether modules are maintained or not, look to see how many have had MODULE_LICENSE(sic) tags added.
Just change the default to no exported symbols, and a single depmod pass will tell you what broke because it's no longer exporting symbols which are required by something else. There's no need to add the EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS cruft all over the place.
Adding EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS to those modules which don't need to export symbols doesn't make your task any easier - so please don't do it. Let's kill EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS altogether.
-- dwmw2
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