Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ide/: possible cleanups

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 02:37:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sad, 2005-04-30 at 21:07, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
> > > - pci/cy82c693.c: make a needlessly global function static
> > > - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
> > >   - ide-taskfile.c: do_rw_taskfile
> > >   - ide-iops.c: default_hwif_iops
> > >   - ide-iops.c: default_hwif_transport
> > >   - ide-iops.c: wait_for_ready
> > 
> > default_*_ops are very much API items not currently used. You need them
> > if you
> > want to switch from mmio back to pio (eg doing S3 resume) although
> > nobody is currently doing that.
> 
> My patch only removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
> 
> The functions themselves stay (since they are used), and if someone 
> wants at some time in the future use them from a module, re-adding them 
> will be trivial.

Hrm... well, that means if I ever want ide-pmac for example to be a
module, I'll have to add them back...

On the other hand, I agree that their names aren't very nice for
exported symbols... they should have been ide_* 

Ben.


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