[openib-general] OpenSM/osm_log API: Use symbol versionsratherthan polluting namespace

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Fri Sep 8 02:29:39 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> What you just argued for is the opposite of both of those accepted and
> commonly used practices.  Not only that, but since all the old code
> *could* be made to work with the new API using nothing more than a macro
> in a header file, to argue for an extra symbol export is *really* the
> wrong thing to do.

I didn't argue about exporting symbols at all.
Macro in a header file to make existing code work would be fine, but it is not
present in the patch that was posted.

-- 
MST




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