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

Dave Jones
2004-03-12T10:10:19Z

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:48:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > 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.

The DVB folks claimed to be working on fixing this up a few weeks back,
still not seen any patches though.

Dave