From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:51:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060125075159.GC23800@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601250004.06543.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:04:06AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:14, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> [2006-01-24 18:08]:
> > > > More interesting question: is pis^H^H^Hsysfs interaction in there safe for
> > > > modular code?
> > >
> > > The core should be safe, at least I was trying to make it this way, so
> > > if you see something wrong - shout. Locking is another question
> > > though...
> >
> > So do you want an updated patch using _GPL to export the symbols or to
> > change CONFIG_INPUT to boolean?
>
> I guess having input core as a module does not make much sense, so
> we should change CONFIG_INPUT to be boolean _and_ clean up the core
> code removing module unloading support.
Well, USB or SCSI cores are also modules, so I think there is some point
in having that functionality.
What were the required symbols?
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-25 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-24 18:19 [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module Martin Michlmayr
2006-01-24 18:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-24 18:34 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 18:41 ` Al Viro
2006-01-24 23:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-24 23:14 ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-01-25 5:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-25 7:51 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2006-01-25 10:54 ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-01-26 22:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-25 14:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-03 22:36 ` [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool Adrian Bunk
2006-01-24 19:08 ` [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module Martin Michlmayr
2006-01-24 19:20 ` Dave Jones
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