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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: Don't mark exported symbols as static
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:48:58 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:01:02PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Why not pull the exports? they aren't used anywhere in the existing kernel.
> 
> I'm guessing there's some not-(yet-)merged mesh networking stuff that
> uses the symbols, but it doesn't matter much to me...

The general rule is to not keep symbols for out of tree stuff, so
removing the exports makes more sense.