Since we have tty_kopen, we no longer need to export tty_open_by_driver. This patch makes this function static. Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja --- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 3 +-- include/linux/tty.h | 5 ----- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_kopen); * - concurrent tty driver removal w/ lookup * - concurrent tty removal from driver table */ -struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device, struct inode *inode, +static struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device, struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { struct tty_struct *tty; @@ -1900,7 +1900,6 @@ out: tty_driver_kref_put(driver); return tty; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_open_by_driver); /** * tty_open - open a tty device --- a/include/linux/tty.h +++ b/include/linux/tty.h @@ -400,8 +400,6 @@ extern struct tty_struct *get_current_tt /* tty_io.c */ extern int __init tty_init(void); extern const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty); -extern struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device, struct inode *inode, - struct file *filp); extern struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device); extern int tty_dev_name_to_number(const char *name, dev_t *number); #else @@ -424,9 +422,6 @@ static inline int __init tty_init(void) { return 0; } static inline const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty) { return "(none)"; } -static inline struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device, - struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) -{ return NULL; } static inline struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device) { return NULL; } static inline int tty_dev_name_to_number(const char *name, dev_t *number)