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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:38:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
To: 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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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Stefan Richter wrote:

> 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:
<snip>
>  - Add warning comments next to obsolete EXPORT_SYMBOLs. Add warning
>    printks to obsolete functions? (If there are any.)

how about just adding __deprecated to them?

-- 
Jesper Juhl

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