From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262667AbTIQCoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:44:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262668AbTIQCoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:44:04 -0400 Received: from orion.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.90]:45323 "EHLO orion.netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262667AbTIQCoC (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:44:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:46:21 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export new char dev functions Message-ID: <20030917024620.GD11420@conectiva.com.br> Mail-Followup-To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , torvalds@osdl.org References: <20030916235729.GA6198@kroah.com> <20030917023630.24595.qmail@lwn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030917023630.24595.qmail@lwn.net> X-Url: http://advogato.org/person/acme Organization: Conectiva S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Em Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:36:30PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet escreveu: > > How about just exporting them in the files where they are declared? I > > do not think we want the ksyms.c file to grow anymore. > > Hmm, I figured somebody would say something like that...grumble...mutter... > ...complain...gripe...moan...new patch appended... > > Of course, there are other exports from that file (i.e. register_chrdev()); > are we actively trying to shrink ksyms.c? Linus call, perhaps, but I for one would love to see it just die, having it in the files that actually implement the functions exported is IMHO more maintainer friendly, not that ksyms.c is that much touched but... - Arnaldo