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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens)
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse),
	vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik), alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox),
	torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make agpsupport work with modversions
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 05:40:28 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200010280940.e9S9eSx02362@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5122.972699496@ocs3.ocs-net> from "Keith Owens" at Oct 28, 2000 01:18:16 PM

> cc list trimmed.  Nobody has come up with a "must have" reason for
> get_module_symbol and that interface is broken as designed.  I will be

Nobody has come up with a 'must break existing sane code' reason either.

> will allow two objects to pass data to each other, it will not matter
> whether the objects are both modules, one module and one built in (in
> either order) or both built in.  When modules are involved there will
> be full module locking.

You have no consensus on this. None at all. It is also past the 2.4test
point for making this change.

Alan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-28  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20001019102722.B9057@suse.cz>
2000-10-26 22:21 ` [PATCH] Make agpsupport work with modversions Alan Cox
2000-10-26 22:55   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2000-10-27 13:25   ` David Woodhouse
2000-10-28  2:18     ` Keith Owens
2000-10-28  6:58       ` Andrew Morton
2000-10-28  9:40       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-10-28  9:55         ` Keith Owens
2000-10-28 10:07           ` Alan Cox
2000-10-28 10:02       ` Alan Cox
2000-10-28 10:08         ` Keith Owens

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