From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262314AbVGGTfH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:35:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261871AbVGGTdZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:33:25 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:29676 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262074AbVGGTbS (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:31:18 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <42CD82CD.5040903@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:30:21 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Jody McIntyre , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: schedule unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal (fwd) References: <20050703232405.GR5346@stusta.de> <20050707144513.GG10001@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050707144513.GG10001@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: (-1.556) AWL,BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jody McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:24:05AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>What shall I do? >>- resend this patch with the removal date set to August or > > That should be fine. I'll watch for it this time. August isn't much > time though; isn't the "standard" 6 months to a year? August is fine; it's our sloppiness that the remove announcement did not go in earlier. People who run external projects that use such symbols might have had forewarning by the previous discussion rounds on linux1394-devel. >>+What: remove the following ieee1394 EXPORT_SYMBOL's: >>+ - hpsb_send_phy_config >>+ - hpsb_send_packet_and_wait >>+ - highlevel_add_host >>+ - highlevel_remove_host >>+ - nodemgr_for_each_host >>+ - csr1212_create_csr >>+ - csr1212_init_local_csr >>+ - csr1212_new_immediate >>+ - csr1212_associate_keyval >>+ - csr1212_new_string_descriptor_leaf >>+ - csr1212_destroy_csr >>+ - csr1212_generate_csr_image >>+ - csr1212_parse_csr Now that we are at it, the following EXPORT_SYMBOLs should be removed too... _csr1212_read_keyval _csr1212_destroy_keyval >>+Files: drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c >>+Why: No modular usage in the kernel. ...at the same place and for the same reason. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=-= -=== --=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/