From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261462AbULNJqA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:46:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261467AbULNJqA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:46:00 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:48523 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261462AbULNJp4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:45:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:45:43 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Adrian Bunk , Max Krasnyansky , bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Network Development Mailing List Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] net/bluetooth/: misc possible cleanups Message-ID: <20041214094543.GA963@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Marcel Holtmann , Adrian Bunk , Max Krasnyansky , bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Network Development Mailing List References: <20041214041352.GZ23151@stusta.de> <1103009649.2143.65.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1103009649.2143.65.camel@pegasus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:34:08AM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > these functions must stay. They have users outside the mainline kernel > that are not merged back yet. Otherwise they won't be exported ;) But we traditionally don't keep APIs only for the sake of external modules. Exceptions are made if you have short- to mid-term plans to merge them.