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On 12/16/2008 08:44 PM, Hannes Eder wrote:
> But, don't ask my why the void functions with empty function bodies
> are exported.

Because of autoload to create a dependency. Note that this is a temporary
solution to workaround the non-presence of hid bus in module-init-tools and will
be removed in next few releases.