Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth Subsystem PC Card drivers for 2.5.27

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 08:00:45 EST

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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

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