Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Guys, the technical arguments are all of course correct.  But the fact
> remains that we broke things without any notice.  (Yes, perhaps someone did
> say something at sometime, but the affected party didn't know, and it's our
> job to make sure that they knew).  (These exports were removed in October -
> the IBM guys need to work out why it took so long to detect the breakage).

Indeed!

We are getting lists of symbols used by the various products, as well
as working to get them tested more frequently against kernel.org trees
instead of only against distro releases.  IBM being what it is, -finding-
all such products is a challenge, but so it goes.

							Thanx, Paul
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