Re: [PATCH] Additional patch for toplevel Makefile driver lists

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 21:38:24 EST


On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> Linus, this is a resend of the patch to you. I'm not certain it made it
> to you the first time.

I don't much like this.

It smells too much like working around a real misfeature, the same way
we're working around the xargs bug.

Maybe the correct thing is to just get rid of .EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS and
instead try to make us better at exporting the real stuff only to the
places we want them?

                Linus

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