From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750812AbWEKOWV (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2006 10:22:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751787AbWEKOWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2006 10:22:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:21668 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812AbWEKOWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2006 10:22:20 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] KBUILD: export-symbol usage report generator Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:13:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Ram Pai , agruen@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, bunk@stusta.de, greg@kroah.com, jbeulich@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mathur@us.ibm.com References: <20060510235546.8A006470034@localhost> <20060511134318.GA7667@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20060511134318.GA7667@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605111613.57718.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'd go even further and say every symbol should have a category. That would be a _lot_ of work. I was thinking more for some specialized symbols first where the meaning is very clear. Also someone has to write the infrastructure first. > These > catgories than could get labels such as mostly stable I don't labels like "stable" etc. very much because it would give false expectations to external users. -Andi