Re: Unexport of blk_get_queue and blk_put_queue

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 02:12:55 EST


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > I noticed that blk_get_queue and blk_put_queue were unexported in the
> > 2.6.25 kernel. Are you aware that this breaks DRBD (an out-of-tree
> > kernel module) ?
>
> no, I verify that my patches don't break Linus' tree and often also peek
> at -mm, but not at external modules.
>
> And I'm a proponent of "no stable kernel API, but as many external
> modules as reasonably possible should be part of the kernel", so emails
> like yours are always a good point to start asking why the code isn't in
> Linus' tree.
>
> What happened to DRBD?
> It didn't seem that far from getting merged half a year ago.

You mean this message: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/21/255 ?
(Added Lars Ellenberg in CC.)

Bart.
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