From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:33:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109324017.6290.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050225092640.GS27352@schnapps.adilger.int>
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 02:26 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2005 09:47 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:28:04 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > > > I haven't found any possible modular usage of do_settimeofday in the
> > > > kernel.
> > >
> > > Sure. But there must have been a reason to export it in the first place.
> >
> > sloppy coding?
>
> Who knows? Maybe someone developed a kernel module that interfaces to an
> unusual clock chip on their motherboard. IMHO, all of this "_I_ don't
> see any use for it, lets get rid of it because it's not useful" changing
> is just a source of grief for anyone that doesn't have their code in
> the kernel.
actually exports cause kernels to be bigger. Some of these exports
aren't even used in the kernel entirely, others cause the kernel to be
bigger just by being non-static and having the symbol structures there.
A lot of them are "you really shouldn't" APIs.
By your argument, why bother with exports at all?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-25 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-24 23:37 Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 5:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-25 9:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2005-02-25 9:33 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-02-25 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-27 22:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-25 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 23:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-26 10:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-26 15:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 15:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:33 ` [2.6 patch] deprecate EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday) Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:37 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 13:38 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 14:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 16:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 16:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 17:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:20 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:29 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:43 ` Adrian Bunk
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