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Subject: Re: sock_alloc() symbol removed in 2.6.10
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ralf Dauberschmidt <rfk@digitalstyle.de>
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On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 12:54 +0200, Ralf Dauberschmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As of kernel 2.6.10 the symbol export of the sock_alloc() function has been
> removed (I assume in the course of "Remove dead socket layer exports"). Can
> anybody tell me why this happened? Why is it "dead"?

nobody used it ?


what driver are you looking at that wants to use it?