Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:01:24AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > You get a false positive if the file containing the symbol is itself a 
> > > module.
> > 
> > I don't understand what you mean.
> > 
> > You mean that a module is doing an EXPORT_SYMBOL of a symbol which is on
> > death row?
> > 
> > If so: err, not sure.  I guess we could just live with the warning.
> 
> also those should be rare; it's certainly not a "core" export that 3rd
> party stuff depends on but most of the time just accidentally exported
> (by people who thought that they needed EXPORT_SYMBOL to glue two .c
> files into the same one .o module)

Some subsystems (e.g. PCMCIA, USB, ALSA, IDE, Firewire, ISDN, I2C, IPv6, 
SCSI) can be built completely modular and will therefore experience this 
issue if any symbol in them is __deprecated_in_modules.

cu
Adrian

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