Re: [2.6 patch] EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,GPL}{,un}register_die_notifier

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jul 01 2006 - 07:41:17 EST


On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-06-30 am 20:35 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> > On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:33:17 +0200
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier);
> > > +EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier); /* June 2006 */
> > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier);
> > > +EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier); /* June 2006 */
> >
> > I'd expect there are any number of low-level debugging quick-hacky modules
> > around which want to hook into here.
> >
> > We can try it I guess, but I expect we'll hear about it.
>
> Some of the cluster modules use it too for fast failover.

which ones?

the gfs ones are in -mm and aren't using it...


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