Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:57:06 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: unexport machine_id |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:07:41 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > You know my position on removal of exports with no warning.
I know it (and don't quite agree but ok) > > If the relevant maintainer chooses to apply the patch then ho hum I > have other things to think about. Your best shot at getting this > sort of thing merged would be to cc the appropriate maintainer. > > Or, better, use __deprecated_for_modules. That's what it was added > for. -
and/or use EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL so that people at least have the option to not suffer the overhead *now*. - 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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