Re: Modutils 2.5 change, start running this command now

[Ingo Oeser]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:45:58PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> In current modutils, a module that does not export symbols and does not
> say EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS will default to exporting all symbols.  This is a
> hangover from kernel 2.0 and will be removed when modutils 2.5 appears,
> shortly after the kernel 2.5 branch is created.
 
Will it still be done, if we put it on the "export-objs" list?

Putting an explicit "EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo)" only encourages people
not to look what they can prepend with "static". Everything not
static is the C-definition of "exporting".

EXPORT_SYMBOL is nice, if you have modules consisting of multiple
objects, that need to share variables/functions but should not be
needed, if the module-author knows sth. about proper design.

Regards

Ingo Oeser