On Thursday 28 December 2006 2:05 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > Hmm, then maybe it'd be worth updating that patch I just sent so that
> > the only change is to switch #includes for the extern decl ... i.e. to
> > "export" it only to other statically linked kernel code, rather than to
> > modules. I'll do that.
> >
> > My own question about that EXPORT_SYMBOL was whether it instead be
> > an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, but if either one costs bytes ... I'm happy to
> > avoid that cost!
>
> no export if it's not *really* need is obviously superior to either of
> those so yes I like the patch you're talking about already without even
> having seen it ;)
The change is trivial ... in pnp/driver.c strike the EXPORT_SYMBOL.
So I won't bother posting it to this list; I hate wasting electrons.
I sent the updated patch to Andrew, but evidently just missed his
2.6.20-rc2-mm1 cutoff.
- Dave
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