From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934205AbXGMFrg (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:47:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933696AbXGMFrT (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:47:19 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:48137 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933500AbXGMFrS (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:47:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:33:03 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kumar Gala Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Move prototypes for EXPORT_SYMBOL functions to include/linux/pci.h Message-ID: <20070713053303.GB17039@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:16:29AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > pci_do_scan_bus() and pci_bus_find_capability() are marked EXPORT_SYMBOL > and thus usable outside of the PCI drive core itself. Make the prototypes > for these functions accessible to everyone. Well, no, I'd like to only have the pci hotplug drivers use them if possible. So until we have proper namespaces on the exported symbols, I'd really like to keep these as-is if possible. Or are you needing these symbols for some code outside of the drivers/pci/ directory tree? thanks, greg k-h