Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Dan Dennedy wrote on 2005-04-20:
> There are technical
> merits for removal of the external symbols that I accept. I also accept
> that we have no way of maintaining any sort of stable subsystem for
> external projects we are not aware of or who are not communicating with
> us about their requirements (it goes beyond just a stable interface).
...
> I vote to remove external symbols not used by the Linux1394.org modules
> or the module at http://sourceforge.net/projects/video-2-1394/

Nobody else posted specific requirements so far. So let's clean up the 
API. How about this:
 - Determine a date or event at which unused symbols and functions will
   vanish. ("Unused": Not used by the mainline drivers and video-2-1394
   or any other project of similar scope of which the linux1394
   maintainers are informed soon enough.)
 - Add an according entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
 - Add warning comments next to obsolete EXPORT_SYMBOLs. Add warning
   printks to obsolete functions? (If there are any.)
Are there proposals for a date? How about end of June?
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Stefan Richter
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