Re: [PATCH] remove dead tcp exports

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 00:58:48 EST


On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 21:52 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:41:05 -0400
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Is this really a compelling reason to remove them? For example ALSA
> > provides an API for driver writers, just because a certain function
> > happens not to be used by any does not mean is never will be or that it
> > should not.
>
> These are actually TCP internals, not a "well defined driver API"
> as ALSA defines.
>

Yeah but there was also a patch posted that removed a bunch of "dead
exports" from ALSA. I was wondering in general what the standard is for
distinguishing the two cases.

Lee

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