Re: 2.6.4-mm1: unknown symbols cauased byremove-more-KERNEL_SYSCALLS.patch

[Andrew Morton]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> 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.

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