From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: wa@almesberger.net, hch@lst.de, davem@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove dead tcp exports
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:43:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098769437.9404.10.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025215216.54b362f9.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 21:52 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:41:05 -0400
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this really a compelling reason to remove them? For example ALSA
> > provides an API for driver writers, just because a certain function
> > happens not to be used by any does not mean is never will be or that it
> > should not.
>
> These are actually TCP internals, not a "well defined driver API"
> as ALSA defines.
>
Yeah but there was also a patch posted that removed a bunch of "dead
exports" from ALSA. I was wondering in general what the standard is for
distinguishing the two cases.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-24 13:43 [PATCH] remove dead tcp exports Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-26 3:07 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-10-26 3:41 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-26 3:55 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-10-26 4:41 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-26 4:52 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-26 5:43 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-10-26 8:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-26 9:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
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