From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:50:36 +0000 Subject: Re: sys_ioctl export Message-Id: <16593.59388.493301.52852@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <1087494747.28235.28.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <1087494747.28235.28.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:42:28 +0200, Andi Kleen 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