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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched.c gratious export removal
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Maw, 2004-09-07 at 15:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> sched.c exports a few internal helpers although none of them is used in
> modular code or code that could easily be made modular, nor would we
> want modules to use them.

>  /**
>   * idle_cpu - is a given cpu idle currently?
>   * @cpu: the processor in question.
> @@ -3152,8 +3147,6 @@
>  {
>  	return cpu_curr(cpu) == cpu_rq(cpu)->idle;
>  }
> -
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(idle_cpu);

External power management modules definitely want to know this.