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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
	BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Network Development Mailing List <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] net/bluetooth/: misc possible cleanups
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:54:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103018099.2143.127.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041214094543.GA963@infradead.org>

Hi Christoph,

> > these functions must stay. They have users outside the mainline kernel
> > that are not merged back yet. Otherwise they won't be exported ;)
> 
> But we traditionally don't keep APIs only for the sake of external modules.
> Exceptions are made if you have short- to mid-term plans to merge them.

it is a short term plan, because otherwise I won't have submitted it in
the first place. And as I said, they are not merged back yet. They are
not tested enough for mainline at the moment.

Regards

Marcel

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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
	BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Network Development Mailing List <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] net/bluetooth/: misc possible cleanups
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:54:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103018099.2143.127.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041214094543.GA963@infradead.org>

Hi Christoph,

> > these functions must stay. They have users outside the mainline kernel
> > that are not merged back yet. Otherwise they won't be exported ;)
> 
> But we traditionally don't keep APIs only for the sake of external modules.
> Exceptions are made if you have short- to mid-term plans to merge them.

it is a short term plan, because otherwise I won't have submitted it in
the first place. And as I said, they are not merged back yet. They are
not tested enough for mainline at the moment.

Regards

Marcel




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-14  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-14  4:13 [2.6 patch] net/bluetooth/: misc possible cleanups Adrian Bunk
2004-12-14  4:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-14  7:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-12-14  7:34   ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-12-14  7:34   ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-12-14  9:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-14  9:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-14  9:54     ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-12-14  9:54       ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-12-19 16:07   ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-19 16:07     ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-19 16:13     ` [2.6 patch] bluetooth/rfcomm/: make some code static Adrian Bunk
2004-12-19 16:13       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-19 16:34     ` [2.6 patch] bluetooth/cmtp/capi.c: make a function static Adrian Bunk
2004-12-19 16:34       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-19 16:34     ` [2.6 patch] bluetooth: make some code static Adrian Bunk
2004-12-19 16:34       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-26 11:20     ` [2.6 patch] net/bluetooth/: misc possible cleanups Marcel Holtmann
2004-12-26 11:20       ` Marcel Holtmann

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