Re: [PATCH 2.5.45] Export blkdev_ioctl for raw block driver.

[Bob Miller]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:11:19PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> > diff -Nru a/kernel/ksyms.c b/kernel/ksyms.c
> > --- a/kernel/ksyms.c	Thu Oct 31 16:47:14 2002
> > +++ b/kernel/ksyms.c	Thu Oct 31 16:47:14 2002
> > @@ -349,6 +349,7 @@
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_open);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_get);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_put);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_ioctl);
> 
> Why not use ioctl_by_bdev() in the first place?  (and yes, it's very likely
> my fault - I hadn't realized that raw.c went modular at some point).
Didn't know about ioctl_by_bdev()... I'll make a patch that converts
the raw driver to call it instead of blkdev_ioctl().

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