Re: 2.6.17-mm2

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Jul 02 2006 - 14:46:04 EST



> Only if we have a policy of not exporting __init or __initdata or
> __exit. Are we there yet??

On the principle of minimum suprise we shall no allow exported symbols
to magically disappear. Only some architectures do get rid of .init and
therefore a module may work with architecture one, but not architecture
two which is very unpredictable.

It should be established as a rule better now than later that this is a
no-go.

Sam
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