Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:06:56 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] small IPMI cleanup
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:46:18AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:

> Adrian,

Hi Corey,

> All these things are tools used by external modules that have not yet 
> made it into the mainstream kernel.  Also, there are other users of 

OK.

> these functions that are perhaps not in the kernel yet (and perhaps 
> never make it into the mainstream kernel).  Some of the statics do need 
> to be cleaned up, though.

Why shouldn't they make it into the mainstream kernel?

> The IPMI driver was designed so that in-kernel users can use it as 
> easily as userland users.  So these are important parts of the interface.

For userland users, a global kernel function (even if EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed) 
is useless.

> -Corey

cu
Adrian

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