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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:52:26 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: Need more symbols to be exported out of kernel
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:42:08PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>    I have implemented file_operations->write() function for reiserfs for
>    linux kernel v2.4, and it seems I need these symbols to be exported
>    out of kernel for a case when reiserfs is built as a module:
>    generic_osync_inode

sounds like a good idea.

>    remove_suid

trivial inline,  either move it to a header or copy & paste.

>    block_commit_write

fine with me.

>    I need block_commit_write just because generic_commit_write is doing
>    some extra stuff I'd better do myself.
>    Will the patch to export these symbols be accepted? (should these be
>    exported as GPL sysmbols or not?).

IMHO no _GPL, they are not different from other generic filesystem code.

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