Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261218AbVBZP3B (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:29:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261222AbVBZP3B (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:29:01 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:32524 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261218AbVBZP26 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:28:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:28:55 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday Message-ID: <20050226152855.GM3311@stusta.de> References: <20050224233742.GR8651@stusta.de> <20050224212448.367af4be.akpm@osdl.org> <20050225214326.GE3311@stusta.de> <20050225135504.7749942e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050225230246.GI3311@stusta.de> <20050225152009.14cdf450.akpm@osdl.org> <1109412084.6414.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109412084.6414.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1444 Lines: 38 On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:01:24AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > You get a false positive if the file containing the symbol is itself a > > > module. > > > > I don't understand what you mean. > > > > You mean that a module is doing an EXPORT_SYMBOL of a symbol which is on > > death row? > > > > If so: err, not sure. I guess we could just live with the warning. > > also those should be rare; it's certainly not a "core" export that 3rd > party stuff depends on but most of the time just accidentally exported > (by people who thought that they needed EXPORT_SYMBOL to glue two .c > files into the same one .o module) Some subsystems (e.g. PCMCIA, USB, ALSA, IDE, Firewire, ISDN, I2C, IPv6, SCSI) can be built completely modular and will therefore experience this issue if any symbol in them is __deprecated_in_modules. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/