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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Gadiyar, Anand" <gadiyar@ti.com>
Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, madhu.cr@ti.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] W1: Export w1_read_8 function
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:44:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010134410.094f349b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A47E75E594F054BAF48C5E4FC4B92AB02D6107AF6@dbde02.ent.ti.com>

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:55:25 +0530
"Gadiyar, Anand" <gadiyar@ti.com> wrote:

> From: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
> 
> This patch exports the w1_read_8 function for use of drivers.
> 

The changelog should explain why the export is needed (eg: "used by the
foobar driver").

If, as I assume, this symbol is used by the HDQ driver then this patch
should be staged _ahead_ of those patches to avoid breaking
bisectability, and because that's generally a saner ordering.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08  7:25 [PATCH 4/5] W1: Export w1_read_8 function Gadiyar, Anand
2008-10-10 20:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2008-10-08  8:20 Gadiyar, Anand

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