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Message-Id: <20070621.141749.71568508.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:17:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hch@....de
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop obsolete sys_ioctl export

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:15:17 +0200

> sys_ioctl was only exported for our first version of compat ioctl
> handling.  Now that the whole compat ioctl handling mess is more or
> less sorted out there are no more modular users left and we can kill it.
> 
> There's one exception and that's sparc64's solaris compat module, but
> sparc64 has it's own export predating the generic one by years for that
> which this patch leaves untouched.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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