Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031384AbWKUUSv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:18:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031386AbWKUUSv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:18:51 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49080 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031383AbWKUUSu (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:18:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:18:44 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [2.6.19 patch] i386/x86_64: remove the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace) Message-ID: <20061121201844.GA7099@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org References: <20061121194138.GF5200@stusta.de> <200611212047.30192.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200611212047.30192.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 803 Lines: 18 On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:47:30PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 20:41, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace) added on i386 > > and x86_64 in 2.6.19-rc. > > > > By removing them before the final 2.6.19 we avoid the possibility of > > people later whining that we removed exports they started using. > > I exported it for systemtap so that they can stop using the broken > hack they currently use as unwinder. Nack, dump_trace is nothing that should be export for broken out of tree junk. - 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/