From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964776AbWL0Wac (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:30:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964787AbWL0Wac (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:30:32 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44933 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbWL0Wab (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:30:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2] PNP: export pnp_bus_type From: Arjan van de Ven To: David Brownell Cc: Adam Belay , ambx1@neo.rr.com, Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <200612271347.47114.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200612271347.47114.david-b@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:30:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1167258618.3281.4112.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 13:47 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > The PNP framework doesn't export "pnp_bus_type", which is an unfortunate > exception to the policy followed by pretty much every other bus. I noticed > this when I had to find a device in order to provide its platform_data. can you please merge the export together with the driver? We already have way too many unused exports, and the only sane way is to merge the export with the user..... (and yes exports are not free, they take up 100 to 150 bytes of kernel size for example)