Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] kernel/audit.c: remove unused exports

[Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:05:21PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
> - audit_log_start
> - audit_log_end
> - audit_log_format
> - audit_log
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3-full/kernel/audit.c.old	2006-04-20 22:38:17.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3-full/kernel/audit.c	2006-04-20 22:40:03.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1092,7 +1092,3 @@
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(audit_log_start);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(audit_log_end);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(audit_log_format);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(audit_log);

It would seem useful to allow out of tree modules (even if they never have
a goal of submitting to become intree) to log audit data. No?  A reason to
prevent it seems utterly lost on me.

Tony