> > I agree that we shouldn't make things too hard for out-of-tree > > modules, but I disagree with your first statement: there clearly is a > > large class of symbols that are used by multiple modules but which are > > not generically useful -- they are only useful by a certain small class > > of modules. > > If it is so clear, you should be able to easily provide examples?
Sure -- Andi's example of symbols required only by TCP congestion modules; the SCSI internals that Christoph wants to mark; the symbols exported by my mlx4_core driver (which I admit are currently only used by the mlx4_ib driver, but which will also be used by at least the ethernet NIC driver for the same hardware). I thought this was already covered repeatedly in the thread and indeed in Andi's code so there was no need to repeat it... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
