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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:14:38 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, tonyj@suse.de,
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Removing EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_ops) (was Re: Time to remove LSM)
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* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> I agree.  In looking over the code some more, I'm trying to figure out
> why we are exporting that variable at all.  Is it because of people
> wanting to stack security modules?

No, the issue is simple.  There's a all the static inlines which use
security_ops, and some of them are placed in modular code.

thanks,
-chris