> It would make LKMs a bit more painful. I'd say if it's ain't broken,
> don't fix it. Also, there is different issue that not all the emuls
> really would use all the functions provided by compat_file.c, so
> it would perhaps bring a bit more unnecessary code into custom
> kernels.

You can ifdef out anything that you don't use. Of course theses function
would not go in a module, but I'm not sure it matters: it's not likely
that you will need to change theses functions: they are just plain
stubs.

However it would have been nice to have this discussion when I proposed
the change last week. 

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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