From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1: unknown symbols cauased by remove-more-KERNEL_SYSCALLS.patch
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:35:02 +0100
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On Friday 12 March 2004 10:29, you wrote:
> I just did an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL of the three symbols and added a suitably
> rude changelog. ?Is that inadequate?

The symbols are already exported on alpha, arm, parisc, um and x86_64,
but I'd rather not have them available to modules at all in order to
prevent driver writers from (ab)using them after KERNEL_SYSCALLS have been
eliminated.

	Arnd <><
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