From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_ioctl export
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:50:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16593.59388.493301.52852@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087494747.28235.28.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net>
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:42:28 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> said:
>> 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().
Andi> It's needed to write 32bit compat ioctl handlers in modules.
That makes sense.
Andi> I would suggest to export it on IA64 too or everywhere.
Why not export it everywhere then? It seems strange to allow it to be
called from modules on 64-bit platforms but not 32-bit platforms.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 17:52 sys_ioctl export Mark Haverkamp
2004-06-17 18:20 ` Grant Grundler
2004-06-17 18:30 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-17 18:31 ` Mark Haverkamp
2004-06-17 18:42 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-17 18:50 ` Grant Grundler
2004-06-17 18:50 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-06-17 18:54 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-17 19:27 ` Grant Grundler
2004-06-17 19:36 ` Mark Haverkamp
2004-06-17 21:25 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-18 6:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-18 14:32 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-18 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-18 14:44 ` Jesse Barnes
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