From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Runtime fix for intermodule.c
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 02:25:31 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507130225.31840.adobriyan@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050712213920.GA9714@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 01:39, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> This little patch adds the missing function declaration
> of the deprecatated function call inter_module_get
> to the header file include/linux/module.h and the
> necessary EXPORT_SYMBOL to kernel/intermodule.c. Without
> the declaration and the EXPORT_SYMBOL any module that requires
> the inter_module_get call will fail upon loading
> since the symbol inter_module_get cannot be resolved,
> applying this patch will make those modules work again.
> Affected modules are for example the ltmodem drivers
> version 8.31a8 for lucent chipsets, they won't
> work without the fix.
Just to be sure I read what I read: you are asking for reexport of a function
that was officially deprecated 9 months ago on the grounds that said reexport
would be useful for a crappy [1] proprietary module?
[1] Semi-randomly freezing serial mouse after loading.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-12 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-12 21:39 [PATCH] Runtime fix for intermodule.c Adrian Glaubitz
2005-07-12 22:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-07-13 8:19 ` Adrian Glaubitz
2005-07-13 10:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-13 11:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-12 22:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
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