Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:06:56 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] small IPMI cleanup |
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:46:18AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Adrian,
Hi Corey,
> All these things are tools used by external modules that have not yet > made it into the mainstream kernel. Also, there are other users of
OK.
> these functions that are perhaps not in the kernel yet (and perhaps > never make it into the mainstream kernel). Some of the statics do need > to be cleaned up, though.
Why shouldn't they make it into the mainstream kernel?
> The IPMI driver was designed so that in-kernel users can use it as > easily as userland users. So these are important parts of the interface.
For userland users, a global kernel function (even if EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed) is useless.
> -Corey
cu Adrian
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