Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Apr 20 2005 - 11:36:54 EST


On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 18:31 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 00:00 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> >>There are users (though not in "the" kernel at the moment)
> > nor for the last 5 months... how long will it be ?
>
> Have there been problems with the API during the past 5 months, except
> that several kernel trees are using some parts of the API? (We are
> actually speaking about two APIs of the ieee1394 framework.)
>
> Which problems are solved by this patch?

exports and the functions beneath them cause the kernel binary be bigger
than needed. If nothing is using an api.. is it really the right one?


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