Re: shmem_file_setup not exported

[Måns Rullgård]

Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

That makes using the module more complicated.  I don't really care
much, I'm not actively using the module.  I was just wondering whether
using it was incredibly silly for some reason.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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