Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If removing exports requires a process, adding exports requires a
> > similar process.
>
> alternatively we should bite the bullet, and just stick those 900 on the
> "we'll kill all these in 3 months" list, have a thing to disable them
> now via a config option (so that people actually notice rather than just
> having them in the depreciation file) and fix the 5 or 10 or so that
> actually will be used soon in those 3 months.
>
I'd instead suggest that we implement a new EXPORT_SYMBOL_UNEXPORT_SCHEDULED
(?) and use that. Suitable compile-time and modprobe-time warnings would
be needed. Put the unexport date in a comment at the
EXPORT_SYMBOL_UNEXPORT_SCHEDULED site or even in the modprobe-time warning
message, if that's convenient:
EXPORT_SYMBOL_UNEXPORT_SCHEDULED(foo, "Dec 2006");
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