Re: [PATCH] drop obsolete sys_ioctl export

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 17:17:40 EST


From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:15:17 +0200

> sys_ioctl was only exported for our first version of compat ioctl
> handling. Now that the whole compat ioctl handling mess is more or
> less sorted out there are no more modular users left and we can kill it.
>
> There's one exception and that's sparc64's solaris compat module, but
> sparc64 has it's own export predating the generic one by years for that
> which this patch leaves untouched.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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