On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 03:50:35AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> Can we, instead of removing these, wrap then in a "Export full API" config
> option? I've already got several reports from external projects that are

This will end in all distributions having this option enabled resulting 
in no change compared to todays status quo.

> using most of these exported symbols, and I'd hate to make it harder on
> them to use our drivers (for internal projects or otherwise).

What are these external projects?

Is they are internal projects, re-adding the EXPORT_SYMBOL's should be 
trivial for them.

If they aren't only internal internal project, why can't they simply be 
merged (making all discussions about removal of the EXPORT_SYMBOL's they 
use obsolete)?

cu
Adrian

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