From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:42:28 +0000
Subject: Re: sys_ioctl export
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> 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().

It's needed to write 32bit compat ioctl handlers in modules.
I would suggest to export it on IA64 too or everywhere.

-Andi