linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clean up exports in fs/{open,read

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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:37:47 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up exports in fs/{open,read_write}.c

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.  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.

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