Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: schedule unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal (fwd)

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Jody McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:24:05AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>What shall I do?
>>- resend this patch with the removal date set to August or
> 
> That should be fine.  I'll watch for it this time.  August isn't much
> time though; isn't the "standard" 6 months to a year?

August is fine; it's our sloppiness that the remove announcement did not 
go in earlier. People who run external projects that use such symbols 
might have had forewarning by the previous discussion rounds on 
linux1394-devel.

>>+What:	remove the following ieee1394 EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
>>+	- hpsb_send_phy_config
>>+	- hpsb_send_packet_and_wait
>>+	- highlevel_add_host
>>+	- highlevel_remove_host
>>+	- nodemgr_for_each_host
>>+	- csr1212_create_csr
>>+	- csr1212_init_local_csr
>>+	- csr1212_new_immediate
>>+	- csr1212_associate_keyval
>>+	- csr1212_new_string_descriptor_leaf
>>+	- csr1212_destroy_csr
>>+	- csr1212_generate_csr_image
>>+	- csr1212_parse_csr

Now that we are at it, the following EXPORT_SYMBOLs should be removed too...
	_csr1212_read_keyval
	_csr1212_destroy_keyval

>>+Files:	drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c
>>+Why:	No modular usage in the kernel.

...at the same place and for the same reason.
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