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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: xtables make functions local
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 13:50:43 +0100
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:31:26PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Saturday 2013-12-28 07:21, David Miller wrote:
> 
> >From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> >Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:09:37 -0800
> >
> >> A couple of functions only used in x_tables, don't need to be global
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> >
> >I'll let Pablo pick this up, thanks.
> 
> Negative, there is at least one known external modules using these.

Unfortunately, we cannot keep symbols for out of tree modules, that
has been the longterm policy.