Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262017AbVD0VMg (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:12:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262026AbVD0VMf (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:12:35 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:63438 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262017AbVD0VMQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:12:16 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4270001F.8020504@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:11:59 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's References: <20050417195706.GD3625@stusta.de> <20050419191328.GJ1111@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> <1113939827.6277.86.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <42657F7C.8060305@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1113981989.6238.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <426683E9.4080708@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1114029144.5085.20.camel@kino.dennedy.org> In-Reply-To: <1114029144.5085.20.camel@kino.dennedy.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: (-1.508) AWL,BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1400 Lines: 29 Dan Dennedy wrote on 2005-04-20: > There are technical > merits for removal of the external symbols that I accept. I also accept > that we have no way of maintaining any sort of stable subsystem for > external projects we are not aware of or who are not communicating with > us about their requirements (it goes beyond just a stable interface). ... > I vote to remove external symbols not used by the Linux1394.org modules > or the module at http://sourceforge.net/projects/video-2-1394/ Nobody else posted specific requirements so far. So let's clean up the API. How about this: - Determine a date or event at which unused symbols and functions will vanish. ("Unused": Not used by the mainline drivers and video-2-1394 or any other project of similar scope of which the linux1394 maintainers are informed soon enough.) - Add an according entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. - Add warning comments next to obsolete EXPORT_SYMBOLs. Add warning printks to obsolete functions? (If there are any.) Are there proposals for a date? How about end of June? -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=-= -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/