From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759286AbXFUVRk (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:17:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755756AbXFUVRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:17:32 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38495 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755343AbXFUVRb (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:17:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070621.141749.71568508.davem@davemloft.net> To: hch@lst.de Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop obsolete sys_ioctl export From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070621211517.GA25268@lst.de> References: <20070621211517.GA25268@lst.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:15:17 +0200 > sys_ioctl was only exported for our first version of compat ioctl > handling. Now that the whole compat ioctl handling mess is more or > less sorted out there are no more modular users left and we can kill it. > > There's one exception and that's sparc64's solaris compat module, but > sparc64 has it's own export predating the generic one by years for that > which this patch leaves untouched. > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: David S. Miller