Re: Modutils 2.5 change, start running this command now

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

kaos@ocs.com.au said:
>  I was going to do it that way.  The problem is that it gives no
> indication if the module has been checked or not.  Adding
> EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS says that somebody has reviewed the module and
> decided that exporting no symbols is the correct behaviour.  It is the
> difference between no maintainer and a maintained module. 

If all you want to know is whether modules are maintained or not, look to 
see how many have had MODULE_LICENSE(sic) tags added. 

Just change the default to no exported symbols, and a single depmod pass
will tell you what broke because it's no longer exporting symbols which are
required by something else. There's no need to add the EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS
cruft all over the place.

Adding EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS to those modules which don't need to export 
symbols doesn't make your task any easier - so please don't do it. Let's 
kill EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS altogether.


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