From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262161AbVAZDL2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:11:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262188AbVAZDL2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:11:28 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:29348 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262161AbVAZDLZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:11:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:10:50 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: paulmck@us.ibm.com Cc: arjan@infradead.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, viro@zenII.uk.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static Message-Id: <20050125191050.68fb0cdf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050125185812.GA1499@us.ibm.com> References: <20050109194209.GA7588@infradead.org> <1105310650.11315.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105345168.4171.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105346324.4171.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105367014.11462.13.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105432299.3917.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105471004.12005.46.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105472182.3917.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050125185812.GA1499@us.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > So, could the exports for the following symbols from the list please be > retained through December 31, 2005? > > blk_get_queue > sock_setsockopt > vfs_follow_link > __read_lock_failed > __write_lock_failed I don't think there's any plan to unexport any of these, and in most cases it would be a dopey thing to do anyway. And if we _were_ to try to remove any of the above exports we should go through the feature-removal-schedule.txt process. So I think we're OK?