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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: unexport machine_id
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:57:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070828065706.50a3eba4@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070828010741.19fccb06.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:07:41 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> You know my position on removal of exports with no warning.

I know it (and don't quite agree but ok)
> 
> If the relevant maintainer chooses to apply the patch then ho hum I
> have other things to think about.  Your best shot at getting this
> sort of thing merged would be to cc the appropriate maintainer.
> 
> Or, better, use __deprecated_for_modules.  That's what it was added
> for. -

and/or use EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL so that people at least have the option
to not suffer the overhead *now*.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-28 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-27 21:28 Adrian Bunk
2007-08-28  8:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-28 13:57   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-14 21:22 Adrian Bunk

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