On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 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:
<snip>
> - Add warning comments next to obsolete EXPORT_SYMBOLs. Add warning
> printks to obsolete functions? (If there are any.)
how about just adding __deprecated to them?
--
Jesper Juhl
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