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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit '[PATCH] kernel/softirq.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:12:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060711121226.GA12679@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060711120159.GA20601@lst.de>


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=80d6679a62fe45f440d042099d997a42e4e8c59d
> 
> open_softirq just enables a softirq.  The softirq array is statically 
> allocated so to add a new one you would have to patch the kernel.  So 
> there's no point to keep this export at all as any user would have to 
> patch the enum in include/linux/interrupt.h anyway.  Adrian, care to 
> submit a patch to kill this senseless export entirely?

good point.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-11 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11 12:01 commit '[PATCH] kernel/softirq.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL' Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-11 12:12 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-07-11 15:19   ` [2.6 patch] unexport open_softirq Adrian Bunk

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