Re: commit '[PATCH] kernel/softirq.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'

* Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=80d6679a62fe45f440d042099d997a42e4e8c59d
> 
> open_softirq just enables a softirq.  The softirq array is statically 
> allocated so to add a new one you would have to patch the kernel.  So 
> there's no point to keep this export at all as any user would have to 
> patch the enum in include/linux/interrupt.h anyway.  Adrian, care to 
> submit a patch to kill this senseless export entirely?

good point.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

	Ingo
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