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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pcmcia: export pcmcia_bus_type
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:20:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070513212042.GA14668@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070512180658.GA14291@lixom.net>

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:06:58PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Export pcmcia_bus_type so module-based drivers can register bus notifiers,
> and add it to what seems to be the main include file.

This all sounds rather fishy to me.  Care to send the code along that makes
use of it.

And even if we're going to add the export it should be _GPL because it's
a deeply internal implementation detail.  Then again I'm not exactly
convinced we should export it yet.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-12 15:33 [PATCH] pcmcia: export pcmcia_bus_type Olof Johansson
2007-05-12 18:06 ` [PATCH v2] " Olof Johansson
2007-05-13 21:20   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-13 21:40     ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-13 23:10       ` Russell King
2007-05-13 23:51         ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-15  4:36   ` [PATCH v3] pcmcia: export pcmcia_bus_type (GPL-only) Olof Johansson

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