Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's

Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-22T08:29:31Z

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 14:20 +0100, Arne Caspari wrote:
> Reply to the mail from Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org):
>
> > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:01 +0100, Arne Caspari wrote:
> > > Adrian,
> > >
> > > Some of these symbols are used by the open source driver "video-2-1394"
> > > ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/video-2-1394 ).
> >
> >
> > are you going to submit that driver for inclusion any time soon ?
>
> What would be the benefit if I do so?

you get a lot more eyes on the code; other people help adjusting your
code to new apis etc etc

> I have no access to linux1394 SVN or kernel repositories
> so I can only support the version on sourceforge.

well.. you do have access to the kernel one basically; just submit well
isolated patches to akpm/linus and they'll show up in a not-too-long
time....