From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Holt Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:18:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill sn_ksyms.c Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:47:05PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:33:00PM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > >>>>> "Christoph" = Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > > Christoph> None of the exported symbols is referenced by a module, > > Christoph> even more the file doesn't compile shen > > Christoph> CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_DEBUG is set. > > > > There are some device drivers coming that will depend on some of these > > symbols so I'd prefer to keep this file in place, at least for > > now. And yes, said drivers are GPL'ed. > > Or just move that stuff when we submit the drivers. I think Robin > looked at this a bit... I thought the sn_ksyms was already gone in 2.6. I would say, go ahead and remove it. We will include our EXPORT_SYMBOLs for the symbols we need at that time. For 2.4, I guess I would say it isn't worth messing with. Robin