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

[Dave Jones]

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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