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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:43:24AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Might the recent discussion on the exporting of sys_open() and
> sys_read() be an example here?  There would appear to be a consensus
> that people should not have used those functions, but they are now
> proving difficult to unexport.

They're not.  The exports aren't used anymore and could just go away
any time.