On Tuesday 27 November 2007 21:50:16 Andi Kleen wrote: > Goals are: > - Limit the interfaces available for out of tree modules to reasonably > stable ones that are already used by a larger set of drivers.
Not the goals. I haven't seen the *problem* yet. > - Limit size of exported API to make stable ABIs for enterprise > distributions easier > [Yes I know that is not a popular topic on l-k, but it's a day-to-day > problem for these distros and out of tree solutions do not work] That's a real problem, and I sympathise with the idea of marking symbols as externally useful (or, practically, mark internal). But we now need to decide what's "externally useful". The currently line for exports is simple: someone in-tree needs it. You dislike the suggestion to extend this to "if more than one in-tree needs it it's open". Currently your criterion seems to be "does the maintainer hate external modules?" which I don't think will be what you want... Cheers, Rusty. - 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
