From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750807AbWGKOFS (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750808AbWGKOFS (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:05:18 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:8607 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbWGKOFR (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:05:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:04:52 -0500 From: Dean Nelson To: Andrew Morton Cc: bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,GPL} {,un}register_die_notifier Message-ID: <20060711140452.GA19238@sgi.com> References: <20060630113317.GV19712@stusta.de> <20060630203546.93a7bd87.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060630203546.93a7bd87.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:35:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:33:17 +0200 > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier); > > +EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier); /* June 2006 */ > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier); > > +EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier); /* June 2006 */ > > I'd expect there are any number of low-level debugging quick-hacky modules > around which want to hook into here. > > We can try it I guess, but I expect we'll hear about it. The XPC module, which is in the community tree, references both symbols. See arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c for details. Dean