[Linux-parport] [2.6 patch] drivers/parport/share.: unexport parport_get_port

Adam Baker parport at baker-net.org.uk
Wed Apr 19 16:03:17 EDT 2006


On Tuesday 18 April 2006 23:07, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_get_port).
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de>
>

It may be unused by any drivers that ship with the kernel but it is used by 
the ppscsi patch to support SCSI over parallel port devices. This export was 
removed in 2.6.10 and put back in in 2.6.16 so someone else obviously thinks 
it should be exported.

> ---
>
> This patch was already sent on:
> - 5 Apr 2006
>
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1-full/drivers/parport/share.c.old	2006-04-05
> 17:12:05.000000000 +0200 +++
> linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1-full/drivers/parport/share.c	2006-04-05
> 17:12:42.000000000 +0200 @@ -1003,7 +1003,6 @@
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_unregister_driver);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_register_device);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_unregister_device);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_get_port);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_put_port);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_find_number);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(parport_find_base);
>




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