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

[Jody McIntyre]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:24:05AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch I sent on 13 May 2005 is still not in Linus' tree, and now 
> it's July.

Sorry, I missed the original thread.  Feel free to CC me in future.

> 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?

Cheers,
Jody

> - send a patch to remove these symbols
> 
> cu
> Adrian
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> 
> This patch schedules unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> 
>  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   21 ++++++++++++++
>  drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c           |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm1-full/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.old	2005-05-13 15:19:54.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm1-full/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2005-05-13 15:29:24.000000000 +0200
> @@ -93,0 +94,21 @@
> +
> +---------------------------
> +
> +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
> +When:	July 2005
> +Files:	drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c
> +Why:	No modular usage in the kernel.
> +Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> --- linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm1-full/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c.old	2005-05-13 15:19:34.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm1-full/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c	2005-05-13 15:28:17.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1226,7 +1226,13 @@
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_alloc_packet);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_free_packet);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_send_phy_config);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_send_packet);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_send_packet_and_wait);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_reset_bus);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_bus_reset);
> @@ -1265,6 +1271,11 @@
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_get_hostinfo_bykey);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_set_hostinfo);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(highlevel_add_host);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(highlevel_remove_host);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(highlevel_host_reset);
>  
> @@ -1275,4 +1286,6 @@
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(hpsb_unregister_protocol);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee1394_bus_type);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(nodemgr_for_each_host);
>  
> @@ -1312,18 +1325,36 @@
>  
>  /** csr1212.c **/
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOLs scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_create_csr);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_init_local_csr);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_new_immediate);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_new_directory);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_associate_keyval);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_attach_keyval_to_directory);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_new_string_descriptor_leaf);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_detach_keyval_from_directory);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_release_keyval);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_destroy_csr);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_read);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_generate_csr_image);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_parse_keyval);
> +
> +/* EXPORT_SYMBOL scheduled for removal */
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csr1212_parse_csr);
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(_csr1212_read_keyval);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(_csr1212_destroy_keyval);
> 
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> cu
> Adrian
> 
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