From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261199AbULUIkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:40:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261262AbULUIkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:40:04 -0500 Received: from mout.alturo.net ([212.227.15.20]:35059 "EHLO mout.alturo.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261199AbULUIkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:40:00 -0500 Message-ID: <41C7E0D4.6010207@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:37:40 +0100 From: Arne Caspari User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: girish wadhwani CC: Lee Revell , Adrian Bunk , bcollins@debian.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's References: <20041220015320.GO21288@stusta.de> <41C694E0.8010609@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20041220175156.GW21288@stusta.de> <1103576759.1252.93.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org girish wadhwani wrote: > > I don't think the symbols are an issue for the Freebob project. > Atleast, not right now. The code doesn't use the symbols. Most of the > driver is intended to be in userspace anyways. > Moreover, if you are going to break in the interface, you might as > well do it before the driver > is written rather than after. I also would like to write an ALSA audio driver for the Apple iSight and I can assure you: Removal of the exports will make this impossible to. /Arne