[PATCH 22/23] sysfs: don't export dir symbols

These functions should only be used by the kobject core, and if any
driver tries to use them, bad things happen.  Unexport them to try to
prevent this from happening.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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 fs/sysfs/dir.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

832c57e9afa7a263bb2f8ee6d04d527ef6709aae
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index bea1f4c..9ee9568 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -510,7 +510,3 @@ struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operati
 	.read		= generic_read_dir,
 	.readdir	= sysfs_readdir,
 };
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_dir);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_dir);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_rename_dir);
-- 
1.2.4


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