From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Maksim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth Subsystem PC Card drivers for 2.5.27
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:00:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020723150045.D14323@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207230628500.3200-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm>; from thunder@ngforever.de on Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:29:38AM -0600
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:29:38AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Because once it became standard, we want to remove it somewhen. It's
> sometimes a bit ridiculous when you read it...
Completely removing it means driver maintainers need to keep
separate 2.4/2.6 versions of their drivers. The extra EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS
is harmless, and allows single source, multi kernel version drivers.
Dave
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-23 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-21 11:29 [PATCH] Bluetooth Subsystem PC Card drivers for 2.5.27 Marcel Holtmann
2002-07-22 3:39 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-22 12:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-22 12:06 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-23 11:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
2002-07-23 12:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-23 12:29 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-23 13:00 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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