Re: [PATCH] rename net_random to random32

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:19:22PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/lib/random32.c
> >...
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(random32);
> >...
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(srandom32);
> >...
> 
> EXPORT_SYMBOL's in lib-y are latent bugs (IMHO kbuild should error
> on them):
> 
> The problem is that if only modules use these functions, they will be 
> omitted from the kernel image.

In fact we should really really just kill lib-y completely.  Leaving
the control of what gets built in to the linker shound like a really
bad idea in our enviroment.
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