linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/32] VFS: export release_open

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Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:59:15 +0530 (IST)
From:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
To:	Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@...sunysb.edu>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	j.blunck@...harburg.de, Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/32] VFS: export release_open_intent symbol



On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index a83160a..b2b7c8e 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *nd)
>  	else
>  		fput(nd->intent.open.file);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_open_intent);

Hmm, why is this being pushed into mainline? This also looks like an
-mm only patch to me, there are no modular users of release_open_intent()
in mainline, and the next patch doesn't add one either.
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