From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Adam Baker <parport@baker-net.org.uk>
Cc: linux-parport@lists.infradead.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
philb@gnu.org, andrea@suse.de, tim@cyberelk.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-parport] [2.6 patch] drivers/parport/share.: unexport parport_get_port
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:02:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060419210216.GF25047@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604192103.17854.parport@baker-net.org.uk>
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:03:17PM +0100, Adam Baker wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 23:07, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_get_port).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> >
>
> It may be unused by any drivers that ship with the kernel but it is used by
> the ppscsi patch to support SCSI over parallel port devices. This export was
> removed in 2.6.10 and put back in in 2.6.16 so someone else obviously thinks
> it should be exported.
>...
That someone else thinks it should be exported hasn't any value.
If the SCSI over parallel port drivers are considered valuable, someone
should work on getting them included in the kernel.
cu
Adrian
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-18 22:07 [2.6 patch] drivers/parport/share.: unexport parport_get_port Adrian Bunk
2006-04-19 20:03 ` [Linux-parport] " Adam Baker
2006-04-19 21:02 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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