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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:33:03 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Cc: mochel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devicefs requests
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:28:57PM -0500, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> Pat,
> 
> 1)  As new drivers pick up the model, check that all xxx_bus_type objects
> get EXPORT_SYMBOLd and included in a include/xxxx header somewhere - My BIOS
> EDD code walks the list of bus types looking for attached devices to compare
> against (pci, ide, scsi, usb, ...).
> ide_bus_type is in include/linux/ide.h but isn't EXPORT_SYMBOL;
> usb_bus_type is in include/linux/usb.h but isn't EXPORT_SYMBOL;

But what do you do with the usb_bus_type?  Why would your code use
anything that is private to the driver core?

thanks,

greg k-h
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