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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jmerkey@timpanogas.org
Subject: EXPORT_SYMBOL for chrdev_open 2.4.3
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:32:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010413173256.A14267@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)



It would be nice if chrdev_open were added to ksyms.c along with
blkdev_open since tape devices seem are always registered as character
rather than block devices.  

I am finding that kernel modules that need to open and close a tape 
drive have to export chrdev_open manually on 2.4.3.  Can this get 
exported as well?  Closing is not a problem since the method of 
calling (->release) seems to work OK with SCSI tape devices.

:-)

Jeff



             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-13 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-13 23:32 Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2001-04-14  0:13 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-14  0:38   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-14  0:47     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-14  1:25       ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-14  1:35         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-14  2:12           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-14  1:29     ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-14  1:36       ` Jeff V. Merkey

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