Re: Need more symbols to be exported out of kernel

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:52:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> >    remove_suid
> trivial inline,  either move it to a header or copy & paste.

Moving to header file trned out to be not that trivial ;)
So I just exported it as it is, since it never was inline desplite
the definition.
Ans I hate duplicating code as it will become maintenance nightmare
later.

Ok, here is first draft of the patch, any issues?

# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project:
# Project Name: Linux kernel tree
# This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher.
# This patch includes the following deltas:
#	           ChangeSet	1.748   -> 1.749  
#	      kernel/ksyms.c	1.60    -> 1.61   
#	        mm/filemap.c	1.67    -> 1.68   
#
# The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log
# --------------------------------------------
# 02/08/19	[e-mail]	1.749
# export generic_osync_inode,block_commit_write, remove_suid
# --------------------------------------------
#
diff -Nru a/kernel/ksyms.c b/kernel/ksyms.c
--- a/kernel/ksyms.c	Mon Aug 19 19:24:31 2002
+++ b/kernel/ksyms.c	Mon Aug 19 19:24:31 2002
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_cont_expand);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cont_prepare_write);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_commit_write);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_commit_write);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_truncate_page);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_block_bmap);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_read);
@@ -531,6 +532,8 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(is_bad_inode);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(event);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(brw_page);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_osync_inode);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_suid);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_UID16
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(overflowuid);
diff -Nru a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
--- a/mm/filemap.c	Mon Aug 19 19:24:31 2002
+++ b/mm/filemap.c	Mon Aug 19 19:24:31 2002
@@ -2886,7 +2886,7 @@
 	return page;
 }
 
-inline void remove_suid(struct inode *inode)
+void remove_suid(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	unsigned int mode;
 

Bye,
    Oleg