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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:30:33 +0000
Subject: Re: sys_ioctl export
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>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:52:27 -0700, Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> said:

  Mark> The ia64 arch doesn't export sys_ioctl like some other 64 bit
  Mark> architectures like ppc64, sparc64 and x86_64.  Was this
  Mark> intentional?

It's intentional in the sense that Linux doesn't export symbols
without good reason.  AFAICT, the following arches export sys_ioctl:

 ppc64
 s390
 sparc64
 x86-64

AFAIK, there is no ia64-specific reason to export the symbol.  If
there is a platform-independent reason for doing so, then it should be
exported for all platform, by putting an EXPORT_SYMBOL() after
fs/ioctl.c:sys_ioctl().

	--david