Re: [2.6 patch] EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,GPL} {,un}register_die_notifier

[Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:35:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:33:17 +0200
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> 
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier);
> > +EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier);  /*  June 2006  */
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier);
> > +EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier);  /*  June 2006  */
> 
> I'd expect there are any number of low-level debugging quick-hacky modules
> around which want to hook into here.
> 
> We can try it I guess, but I expect we'll hear about it.

The XPC module, which is in the community tree, references both symbols.
See arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c for details.

Dean
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