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

Arne Caspari
2004-12-20T09:04:06Z

Adrian,

Some of these symbols are used by the open source driver "video-2-1394"
( http://sourceforge.net/projects/video-2-1394 ).

This driver is supported by The Imaging Source Europe GmbH and used by
quite a few of our customers. For most of these customers, it is OK to
compile the driver but not to modify the kernel source.

Please please, do not break the kernel API out of the blue. Supporting a
Linux driver is already very frustrating. Currently it is a lot more
convenient for our customers to switch to Windows just because the
installation and use of the software is much easier there - or at least
it is easy enough there to handle the installation where it is not on Linux.

Breaking the API now will most likely stop The Imaging Source from
supporting open source driver development anymore. We just can not
effort any unneccessary development anymore. We are already blocked by
shortcomings in the LDM and bugs in the Linux driver handling ( see my
posings about a hotplugging issue and about the issue that IEEE-1394
modules can not be unloaded ).

Thanks and best regards,

Arne Caspari

The Imaging Source Europe GmbH

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The patch below removes 41 unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
>
>
> diffstat output:
> drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c | 41 -------------------------------
> 1 files changed, 41 deletions(-)