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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:11:00 -0700
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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.