On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 06:52:34PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:56:02 +0200
> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
> > - sd_ops.c: mmc_wait_for_app_cmd()
> > - core.c: mmc_start_request()
> 
> I am a bit torn about these two. Even though we don't cater to
> out-of-tree stuff, having these as exported symbols shows that they are
> part of the API. Removing them might risk people going about doing
> something silly because they don't know the functionality exists, and
> we might not spot it at patch review time.

If mmc_start_request() is considered part of an API people should use, 
why isn't there a prototype in a header file?

> Rgds

cu
Adrian

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