Re: shmem_file_setup not exported

[Hugh Dickins]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> I noticed this change in mm/shmem.c:
> 
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(shmem_file_setup);
> 
> Is there a reason for this, other than nobody using it?

That's the reason hch rightly removed the export, yes.
ipc/shm.c does use it, but it's never a module, so doesn't need export.
No other reason, beyond that it's appropriate to minimize exports.
If you want to use it from your module, just patch the export back.

Hugh

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