Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's

From: Arne Caspari (arnem_at_informatik.uni-bremen.de)
Date: 12/20/04

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    Date:	Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:01:20 +0100
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Adrian,

    Some of these symbols are used by the open source driver "video-2-1394"
    ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/video-2-1394 ).

    This driver is supported by The Imaging Source Europe GmbH and used by
    quite a few of our customers. For most of these customers, it is OK to
    compile the driver but not to modify the kernel source.

    Please please, do not break the kernel API out of the blue. Supporting a
    Linux driver is already very frustrating. Currently it is a lot more
    convenient for our customers to switch to Windows just because the
    installation and use of the software is much easier there - or at least
    it is easy enough there to handle the installation where it is not on Linux.

    Breaking the API now will most likely stop The Imaging Source from
    supporting open source driver development anymore. We just can not
    effort any unneccessary development anymore. We are already blocked by
    shortcomings in the LDM and bugs in the Linux driver handling ( see my
    posings about a hotplugging issue and about the issue that IEEE-1394
    modules can not be unloaded ).

    Thanks and best regards,

    Arne Caspari

    The Imaging Source Europe GmbH

    Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > The patch below removes 41 unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
    >
    >
    > diffstat output:
    > drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c | 41 -------------------------------
    > 1 files changed, 41 deletions(-)
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