Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261304AbTIKPko (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:40:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261306AbTIKPko (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:40:44 -0400 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:35851 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261304AbTIKPkm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:40:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:40:37 +0100 From: John Levon To: Jani Monoses Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: about kernel/ksyms.c Message-ID: <20030911154037.GB46513@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20030911114557.219e45b7.jani@iv.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030911114557.219e45b7.jani@iv.ro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: King of Woolworths - L'Illustration Musicale X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19xTYj-0000qZ-6Y*8pjrayz52V6* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 21 On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:45:57AM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote: > what is the reason for symbols being exported from ksyms.c instead of > the files they are defined in? Historically you had to explicitly specify which files exported symbols in the makefile. That's not true any more, and recent style seems to be to do what you suggest. But it's not really worth the trouble of redistributing the stuff in ksyms.c except as part of other patches IMHO regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/