Re: [PATCH] Export new char dev functions

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 21:45:18 EST


Em Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:36:30PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet escreveu:
> > How about just exporting them in the files where they are declared? I
> > do not think we want the ksyms.c file to grow anymore.
>
> Hmm, I figured somebody would say something like that...grumble...mutter...
> ...complain...gripe...moan...new patch appended...
>
> Of course, there are other exports from that file (i.e. register_chrdev());
> are we actively trying to shrink ksyms.c?

Linus call, perhaps, but I for one would love to see it just die, having it
in the files that actually implement the functions exported is IMHO more
maintainer friendly, not that ksyms.c is that much touched but...

- Arnaldo
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