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SubjectRe: Suspend 2 merge: 10/51: Exports for suspend built as modules.
>  /*
> * Platforms implementing 32 bit compatibility ioctl handlers in
> - * modules need this exported
> + * modules need this exported. So does Suspend2 (when made as
> + * modules), so the export_symbol is now unconditional.
> */
> -#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_ioctl);
> -#endif

This is definitly the wrong interface for whatever you want to do.

> diff -ruN 400-exports-old/fs/namei.c 400-exports-new/fs/namei.c
> --- 400-exports-old/fs/namei.c 2004-11-03 21:53:11.000000000 +1100
> +++ 400-exports-new/fs/namei.c 2004-11-04 16:27:40.000000000 +1100
> @@ -1649,6 +1649,8 @@
> return error;
> }
>
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_mkdir);

Dito

> * We try to drop the dentry early: we should have
> * a usage count of 2 if we're the only user of this
> diff -ruN 400-exports-old/fs/namespace.c 400-exports-new/fs/namespace.c
> --- 400-exports-old/fs/namespace.c 2004-11-03 21:54:15.000000000 +1100
> +++ 400-exports-new/fs/namespace.c 2004-11-04 16:27:40.000000000 +1100
> @@ -490,6 +490,8 @@
> return retval;
> }
>
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_umount);

Dito

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_mount);

Dito.

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_match);

Also nothing anything outside of procfs internals should do.

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_write);

wrong aswell.

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_reboot);

Dito

> unsigned long avenrun[3];
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(avenrun);

Nothing you should poke into.

> +/* Exported for Software Suspend 2 */
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(nr_free_highpages);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pgdat_list);

Dito.

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(swap_free);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(swap_info);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_swapoff);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_swapon);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(si_swapinfo);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(map_swap_page);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_swap_page);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_swap_info_struct);

Dito. Lowlevel swapdevice access isn't something modules should poke
into.

Nigel, why do I have this strange feeling that exactly the same patch
was rejected already but you resubmitted it again?

If you want anything merged drop the modular swsusp bits, I doubt it'll
ever be merged.
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