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From: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/32] VFS: export release_open_intent symbol
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:59:15 +0530 (IST)
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index a83160a..b2b7c8e 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *nd)
>  	else
>  		fput(nd->intent.open.file);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_open_intent);

Hmm, why is this being pushed into mainline? This also looks like an
-mm only patch to me, there are no modular users of release_open_intent()
in mainline, and the next patch doesn't add one either.