Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range
From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 13:41:06 EST
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:32:10PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> A rule of thumb might be whether any code in the tree uses a given
> export, and if not, prune it. Anything which even we don't use or export
> across the user-land boundary certainly qualifies as a kernel interna.
political issues aside, this sounds like a decent rule-of-thumb in general;
if NO module uses it, it is most likely the wrong API (for example obsoleted API left
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