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    Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:

    > On Dec 14 2006 09:52, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
    >>On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    >>
    >>> Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense.
    >>
    >>A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating
    >>nearly 1900 instances, so patches to do this would be pretty large and
    >>disruptive (though we could support both during a transition and
    >>migrate them over time).
    >
    > I'd prefer to do it at once. But that's not my decision so you anyway do what
    > you want.
    >
    > That said, I would like to keep EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, because EXPORT and INTERNAL
    > is somehow contrary. Just a wording issue.

    I would suggest that we make the prefix MODULE and not EXPORT. It
    more accurately conveys what we are trying to say, and it doesn't
    have the conflicting problem with INTERNAL.

    I don't know if it is actually worth doing a great rename for such
    a simple clarification in language. But it is worth considering
    because it would more strongly convey that we don't expect these
    symbols to be used by everything.

    Eric
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