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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:12:41 +0200
From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unexport of blk_get_queue and blk_put_queue
Cc: "Philipp Reisner" <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>,
       "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>  > I noticed that blk_get_queue and blk_put_queue were unexported in the
>  > 2.6.25 kernel. Are you aware that this breaks DRBD (an out-of-tree
>  > kernel module) ?
>
>  no, I verify that my patches don't break Linus' tree and often also peek
>  at -mm, but not at external modules.
>
>  And I'm a proponent of "no stable kernel API, but as many external
>  modules as reasonably possible should be part of the kernel", so emails
>  like yours are always a good point to start asking why the code isn't in
>  Linus' tree.
>
>  What happened to DRBD?
>  It didn't seem that far from getting merged half a year ago.

You mean this message: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/21/255 ?
(Added Lars Ellenberg in CC.)

Bart.