Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. > > A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating > nearly 1900 instances, so patches to do this would be pretty large and > disruptive (though we could support both during a transition and > migrate them over time).
Please don't use that name, it strikes me as much more confusing than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, even though I agree that _GPL doesn't quite convey what it means, either. EXPORT_SYMBOL_RESTRICTED? EXPORT_SYMBOL_DERIVED? At least something which is not internally inconsistent would be good (how is something which is exported "internal?") And, as long as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL continues to check that the module using it has a GPL license, then it really -is- exactly descriptive of what it's doing and probably shouldn't be changed. IIMHO. -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
