Re: Removing EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_ops) (was Re: Time to remove LSM)

(sorry if this is repeat, my mail server is dying, and mail is coming in
seriously out of order)

* Greg KH ([email protected]) wrote:
> I agree.  In looking over the code some more, I'm trying to figure out
> why we are exporting that variable at all.  Is it because of people
> wanting to stack security modules?

No, the issue is simple.  There's a all the static inlines which use
security_ops, and some of them are placed in modular code.

thanks,
-chris
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