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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:00:28 +0200
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:13 -0400, Jody McIntyre wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:57:07PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> > This patch removes unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
...
>> Given the objections to your December patch, why should we accept this
>> one now?
> 
> since there still isn't a user ??

There are users (though not in "the" kernel at the moment), have been
users, will be users.

Note: There is no architectural problem or something like that which
would be a reason to change the API.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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