Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:57:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:57:43 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:29450 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:57:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:00:45 +0200 From: Dave Jones To: Thunder from the hill Cc: Ingo Molnar , Marcel Holtmann , Linus Torvalds , Maksim Krasnyanskiy , Linux Kernel Mailing List , BlueZ Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth Subsystem PC Card drivers for 2.5.27 Message-ID: <20020723150045.D14323@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Thunder from the hill , Ingo Molnar , Marcel Holtmann , Linus Torvalds , Maksim Krasnyanskiy , Linux Kernel Mailing List , BlueZ Mailing List References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from thunder@ngforever.de on Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:29:38AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 19 On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:29:38AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Because once it became standard, we want to remove it somewhen. It's > sometimes a bit ridiculous when you read it... Completely removing it means driver maintainers need to keep separate 2.4/2.6 versions of their drivers. The extra EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS is harmless, and allows single source, multi kernel version drivers. Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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/