Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262060AbUCLJs1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:48:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262062AbUCLJs1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:48:27 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:9421 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262060AbUCLJs0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:48:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:48:09 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1: unknown symbols cauased by remove-more-KERNEL_SYSCALLS.patch Message-Id: <20040312014809.4f2b280e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200403121035.02977.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20040310233140.3ce99610.akpm@osdl.org> <200403121014.40889.arnd@arndb.de> <20040312012942.5fd30052.akpm@osdl.org> <200403121035.02977.arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 20 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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. > But then the removal of KERNEL_SYSCALLS becomes hostage to those drivers, and nobody is working on them. It'll never happen. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/