From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport is_console_locked
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:51:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114303890.5443.4.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050423164948.652cc82b.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 16:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
> >
>
> Is needed for WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED().
>
> It just happens that WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() is currently only using in
> vt.c, which just happens to not support modular usage.
>
> But disabling this export would make WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() pretty useless
> for driver development.
>
> So I'd suggest that we either leave this symbol exported for driver
> developers or we nuke WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() altogether.
>
> Ben, do you still want it?
Yes, I do. Please, keep it exported. On that note, I don't understand
that frenzy of unexporting everything you can, I find this useless
burden in general.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-24 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-15 15:10 [2.6 patch] unexport is_console_locked Adrian Bunk
2005-04-23 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-24 0:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-04-24 9:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2005-03-04 0:48 Adrian Bunk
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