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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clean up exports in fs/{open,read_write}.c
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)
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