From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965204AbVKHORG (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:17:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965213AbVKHORG (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:17:06 -0500 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:9541 "EHLO emea1-mh.id2.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965204AbVKHORE (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:17:04 -0500 Message-Id: <4370C1A7.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0 Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:17:59 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Adrian Bunk" Cc: Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: export genapic again References: <4370AEE1.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <20051108132954.GQ3847@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20051108132954.GQ3847@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> Adrian Bunk 08.11.05 14:29:54 >>> >On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> A change not too long ago made i386's genapic symbol no longer be >> exported, and thus certain low-level functions no longer be usable. >> Since close-to-the-hardware code may still be modular, this >> rectifies the situation. > >We don't export symbols for "there might be some driver that might need >this". > >Can we discuss this issue when such a driver gets submitted for >inclusion in the kernel? I'm in the process of preparing such a submission. Jan