From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utrace: remove exports
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:12:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070430091244.GA949@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430040232.EB3DD1801A4@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:02:32PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(utrace_attach);
> >
> > There is not modular user of this, so this and the other utrace_
> > functions should not be exported. Nor do I think that exporting
> > such a low-level process control is nessecary a good idea, but
> > we'll have to evaluate that if patches to add users show up.
>
> If you remove the exports, just throw the whole thing away.
> The reason utrace exists is to be used by modules.
used != used by modules. Even without things exported you can use
things in the kernel. Once we have a valid modular use case we can
add exports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-18 18:01 [PATCH] utrace: remove exports Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-30 4:02 ` Roland McGrath
2007-04-30 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-03 18:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
[not found] <46269F6A.4050303@us.ibm.com>
2007-04-18 23:02 ` Jim Keniston
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