Re: [PATCH] proc_lookup not exported

[Jeff Golds]

Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > I noticed that proc_lookup is not exported in fs/proc/procfs_syms.c but
> > that the function is an external in include/linux/proc_fs.h.
> 
> Not every public function needs to be exported. proc_lookup() is
> shared between different files in fs/proc/, so it can't be made
> static. However, it got no business being used outside of the
> fs/proc and it certainly shouldn't be used in modules.
> 

I don't see why not. I created my own mkdir and rmdir handlers in my
module.  I'd like to use the lookup function that proc supplies instead
of supplying my own, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that?  It's not as
if I am doing something other than what normally happens:  I am
assigning inode_operations::lookup to be proc_lookup.

-Jeff

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