From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757527AbXH1N5q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:57:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753262AbXH1N5k (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:57:40 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45749 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752673AbXH1N5j (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:57:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:57:06 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: unexport machine_id Message-ID: <20070828065706.50a3eba4@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20070828010741.19fccb06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070827212808.GT4121@stusta.de> <20070828010741.19fccb06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.11.6; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:07:41 -0700 Andrew Morton 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*.