Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:11:59 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's |
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Dan Dennedy wrote on 2005-04-20: > There are technical > merits for removal of the external symbols that I accept. I also accept > that we have no way of maintaining any sort of stable subsystem for > external projects we are not aware of or who are not communicating with > us about their requirements (it goes beyond just a stable interface). ... > I vote to remove external symbols not used by the Linux1394.org modules > or the module at http://sourceforge.net/projects/video-2-1394/
Nobody else posted specific requirements so far. So let's clean up the API. How about this: - Determine a date or event at which unused symbols and functions will vanish. ("Unused": Not used by the mainline drivers and video-2-1394 or any other project of similar scope of which the linux1394 maintainers are informed soon enough.) - Add an according entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. - Add warning comments next to obsolete EXPORT_SYMBOLs. Add warning printks to obsolete functions? (If there are any.) Are there proposals for a date? How about end of June? -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=-= -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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