Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 14 2006 09:52, 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). > > I'd prefer to do it at once. But that's not my decision so you anyway do what > you want. > > That said, I would like to keep EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, because EXPORT and INTERNAL > is somehow contrary. Just a wording issue.
I would suggest that we make the prefix MODULE and not EXPORT. It more accurately conveys what we are trying to say, and it doesn't have the conflicting problem with INTERNAL. I don't know if it is actually worth doing a great rename for such a simple clarification in language. But it is worth considering because it would more strongly convey that we don't expect these symbols to be used by everything. 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/
