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From: Eliot Blennerhassett <linux@audioscience.com>
Subject: Re: asihpi driver -> kernel
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:13:25 +1300
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To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
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Takashi Iwai wrote:

>>> - Global variables should have some unique prefix.  The kernel code is
>>>   monolithc C, so they are really global and has no name space.
>> Did you have a list?
>> There are a few function names that don't start with HPI.
> 
> Err, sorry, I meant global variables *and functions*.

BTW is there any way to not export functions/variables that are used
only inside the kernel module? (but used between object files that make
up the module so cannot be made static)

I.e. if the module was compiled as one huge sourcefile, almost
everything could be static.

regards

Eliot