From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261543AbULTPp3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:45:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261572AbULTPmC (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:42:02 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:24557 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261543AbULTPkY (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:40:24 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's From: Alan Cox To: Arne Caspari Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20041220132012.GA6046@localhost> References: <20041220015320.GO21288@stusta.de> <41C694E0.8010609@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <1103544944.4133.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20041220132012.GA6046@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1103553354.30268.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:35:58 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2004-12-20 at 13:20, Arne Caspari wrote: > > are you going to submit that driver for inclusion any time soon ? > > What would be the benefit if I do so? I have no access to linux1394 SVN or kernel repositories so I can only support the version on sourceforge. Everyone can submit patches to the kernel tree. If your driver is open source and you and your customers would benefit from having it just work out of the box with distributions please consider submitting it. It also helps maintainability because it becomes obvious when something will break your driver and people can code accordingly (or submit fixes that also fix up your driver code). Alan