From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: mmilenko@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davej@codemonkey.org.uk, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] Exporting mmu_cr4_features again for i386 & x86_64
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:08:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060629040801.734ca23c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606291255.36206.ak@suse.de>
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:55:36 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:01, Milena Milenkovic wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The mmu_cr4_features variable was "unexported" in 2.6.12 kernel
> > (A patch submitted by Adrian Bunk, [2.6 patch] unexport mmu_cr4_features).
>
> Normal policy is to unexport symbols that are not used in the core
> kernel.
>
> However I think there is a deprecation policy with prior
> warning that might not have been followed here.
We have EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL() as of this
morning. We can convert unused exports to use those and users will get a
nasty warning at modprobe-time when they use the exported symbols.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-29 11:08 UTC|newest]
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2006-06-29 10:55 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-29 11:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-29 11:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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