Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:49:01 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clean up exports in fs/{open,read_write}.c |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:33:10AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: >> Takashi-san fixed sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront_synth.c to use >> request_firmware instead of sys_*. Since that is the last driver in the >> kernel that uses sys_{read,close}, this patch kills these exports. sys_open >> is left exported for sparc64 only. > > I can't find any spar user of it, so please kill it.
it's in the solaris compat code which is modular
> In the case a symbol > is needed only for a particular architecture it's better to do it in the > architecture-specific ksyms file than with an ifdef, btw.
agreed. (well if it's only 1 or 2, if it's "half of them" it's obviously a different story) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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