From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: navych@126.com (Navy) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:40:52 +0800 Subject: Do you know the bug of EXPORT_SYMBOL() In-Reply-To: References: <20150724054941.GA17034@debian> Message-ID: <20150724124051.GA2685@debian> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:48:57PM +0530, Pranay Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Navy wrote: > > Hi > > To my understanding, EXPORT_SYMBOL() is used to export a symbol in > > > Why this bug is not be fixed? > > > It's a long way from 2.6 now. can you send something about this "bug"? Hi Pranay, The detail is below: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12446#c11 Maybe other people think out-of-tree modules should not be supported. I don't know How do the in-tree modules reference other symbols and be insmod without this problem. If you can help me about this, I will deeply grateful.