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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:19:41 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] unexport open_softirq
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Christoph Hellwig:
open_softirq just enables a softirq.  The softirq array is statically
allocated so to add a new one you would have to patch the kernel.  So
there's no point to keep this export at all as any user would have to
patch the enum in include/linux/interrupt.h anyway.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

--- linux-2.6.18-rc1-mm1-full/kernel/softirq.c.old	2006-07-11 16:50:54.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc1-mm1-full/kernel/softirq.c	2006-07-11 16:51:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -311,8 +311,6 @@
 	softirq_vec[nr].action = action;
 }
 
-EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(open_softirq);  /*  June 2006  */
-
 /* Tasklets */
 struct tasklet_head
 {