Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:46:21 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export new char dev functions
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Em Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:36:30PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet escreveu:
> > How about just exporting them in the files where they are declared?  I
> > do not think we want the ksyms.c file to grow anymore.
> 
> Hmm, I figured somebody would say something like that...grumble...mutter...
> ...complain...gripe...moan...new patch appended...
> 
> Of course, there are other exports from that file (i.e. register_chrdev());
> are we actively trying to shrink ksyms.c?

Linus call, perhaps, but I for one would love to see it just die, having it
in the files that actually implement the functions exported is IMHO more
maintainer friendly, not that ksyms.c is that much touched but...

- Arnaldo
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