linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys

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Message-ID: <20070918141036.GE27980@stusta.de>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:10:36 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, perex@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:18:38AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:39:20 +0100
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:25:28PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > sys_{open,read} can finally be unexported.
> > 
> > Andrew, can you please put this in?  Having these exports for syscalls around
> > hsa been a long-time annoyance that can finally be fixed now.
> 
> I'm happy to see this go too, but please add the necessary
> export to arch/sparc64/kernel/sparc64_ksyms.S so that the
> solaris system call table reference in
> arch/sparc64/solaris/systbls.S can be satisfied.
>...

This module calls neither sys_open() nor sys_read() directly.

cu
Adrian

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