On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:43:24AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Rusty said: > > > Well, introduce an EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL(). It's a lot less code. But > > you'd > > still need to show that people are having trouble knowing what APIs to use. > > Might the recent discussion on the exporting of sys_open() and > sys_read() be an example here? There would appear to be a consensus > that people should not have used those functions, but they are now > proving difficult to unexport.
That is a good example yes. > Perhaps the best use of the namespace stuff might be for *future* > exports which are needed to help make the mainline kernel fully modular, > but which are not meant to be part of a more widely-used API? Not sure about future only, but yes that is its intention. Thanks for putting it clearly. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
