Re: 2.6.4-mm1: unknown symbols cauased by remove-more-KERNEL_SYSCALLS.patch

Andrew Morton
2004-03-12T09:48:27Z

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Friday 12 March 2004 10:29, you wrote:
> > I just did an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL of the three symbols and added a suitably
> > rude changelog.  Is that inadequate?
>
> The symbols are already exported on alpha, arm, parisc, um and x86_64,
> but I'd rather not have them available to modules at all in order to
> prevent driver writers from (ab)using them after KERNEL_SYSCALLS have been
> eliminated.
>

But then the removal of KERNEL_SYSCALLS becomes hostage to those drivers,
and nobody is working on them. It'll never happen.