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

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Message-ID: <20070828122623.GA16800@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:26:23 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up exports in fs/{open,read_write}.c

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:49:01PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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

While it does use some sys_ symbols, I can't find it use sys_open.

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