Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:08:51 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, bunk@fs.tum.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1: unknown symbols cauased by remove-more-KERNEL_SYSCALLS.patch
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:48:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > > 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.

The DVB folks claimed to be working on fixing this up a few weeks back,
still not seen any patches though.

		Dave

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