From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:11:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140912221100.GA10090@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23918811.SYffIVGlUb@storm>
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:57:39PM +0200, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I just compiled the VMware kernel modules 9.4.6-1770165
> on kernel 3.14.18 (upgrading from 3.4.101).
>
> The functions getname() and putname() are both used
> by the "vmblock" and "vmsync" module.
>
> Any chance to revert 8e377d15078a501c4da98471f56396343c407d92
> ---------------------------------------
> vfs: unexport getname and putname symbols
No. that was intentional an no module should use them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-12 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 13:57 vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers Thomas Jarosch
2014-09-12 22:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-09-13 2:12 ` Jeff Layton
2014-09-15 7:41 ` Thomas Jarosch
2014-09-15 15:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-09-18 13:48 ` Thomas Jarosch
2014-09-18 17:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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