From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:54:03 +0000 Subject: Re: sys_ioctl export Message-Id: <20040618065403.GA14588@infradead.org> 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, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:25:16PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:36:54 -0700, Mark Haverkamp said: > > Mark> Wouldn't there be some reluctance to export a symbol to > Mark> everyone when it is only used for a special purpose? > > It seems rather silly to try to limit the exporting of a symbol that's > exported for all 64-bit platforms. But I don't really care. If you > want to submit a tested patch to add the symbol to ia64_ksyms.c, I can > certainly live with that. Just put the export into common code and guard it by CONFIG_COMPAT, matches exactly the intended users.