On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:08:08PM +0000, Jon Maloy wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> >This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
> >- make needlessly global functions static
> >- #if 0 unused functions
> >
> >
> Thanks. I think most of those were due for our next release, anyway. But
> we'll
> get it in, one way or another.
>
> >- remove all EXPORT_SYMBOL's
> >
> >My impression is that most of this might have users that are not yet
> >submitted for inclusion in the kernel - one year after TIPC was merged.
> >
> >
> Not quite. The exported symbols belong to a public API for driver
> programmers.
> We know about several users of this API, and there will be more, but I
> don't think
> any of them are aspiring to have their code be included in the kernel.
>...
Why not?
The goal is to get as many drivers as possible included in the kernel.
cu
Adrian
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