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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6: why no EXPORT_SYMBOL of get_sb_pseudo()?
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:03:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031001110303.GQ7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16250.39070.555465.86772@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> fs/libfs.c:get_sb_pseudo() isn't exported to modules,
> but a lot of the other stuff in fs/libfs.c is.
> 
> Is there a particular reason for this or just an oversight?
> 
> Making a private copy of get_sb_pseudo()'s definition works
> in a module, but that's not exactly productive use of
> programmer time or source and object code space.

Are you really sure that get_sb_pseudo() is what you need?  It might be
possible, but I suspect that simple_fill_super() would be the right thing
to use.  Care to give details?

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01  9:04 2.6: why no EXPORT_SYMBOL of get_sb_pseudo()? Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-01 11:03 ` viro [this message]
2003-10-01 11:38   ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-01 14:41     ` Mikael Pettersson

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