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unexport uts_sem

PATCH In review Adrian Bunk 3 participants 3 messages Mar 4, 2005

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PATCH 1/1 unexport uts_sem

I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
kernel/sys.c renamed from kernel/sys.c.old +0 -2
@@ -1382,8 +1382,6 @@
 
 DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);
 
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(uts_sem);
-
 asmlinkage long sys_newuname(struct new_utsname __user * name)
 {
 	int errno = 0;
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Quoted 1 line · Adrian Bunk

I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Sure ? This used to be exported for loadable modules that wanted to get the system default hostname string and for emulation layers like xabi (the SYS5 unix emulation lib)

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Quoted 6 lines · Alan Cox
Quoted 1 line · Adrian Bunk

I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Sure ? This used to be exported for loadable modules that wanted to get the system default hostname string and for emulation layers like xabi (the SYS5 unix emulation lib)

afaik the linux abi stuff never made the jump to 2.6, and is far from likely to do so...