Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL missing in the kernel?

[Pierre Rondou <prondou@gmail.com>]

Hello Jan,

I appreciate your help !

This problem is not related with the problem I had at this moment.

The "old" problem was about an output problem with ip6_local_out. I was 
at this time on an old debian testing (between lenny and squeeze) and 
the update to "complete" squeeze solved the problem, so I thought that 
it was a problem related to my OS situation.

Now that you say that, I have realized that ip6_local_out (which I don't 
use anymore, I use ip6_output) was creating kernel panic when asked to 
send an IPv6 packet with a size higher than the link mtu, should have 
talked about it earlier though.

The little complain about NATIVI 
(http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg18248.html) was that no 
kernel / Xtables developers told me they wanted the module inside the 
kernel/Xtables or even sent me a remark about it and therefore could 
take care about the missing "EXPORT_SYMBOL".
This module is developed inside Xtables and therefore doesn't need to 
recompile a kernel.


While I'm sending you an e-mail, I may contribute to your very 
interesting "Writing Netfilter modules" ebook.
I had to deal with checksums changes/update in both IPv4 and IPv6 and 
may contribute to this section (5.7) if you still need someone to :-).

Regards,

Pierre

Le 24/05/11 16:41, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
>
> On Tuesday 2011-05-24 15:48, Pierre Rondou wrote:
>    
>> Of course, the best way would be to patch the currently dev kernel (2.6.39 if I
>> take your word from previous mail) to use my module.
>> But I'm not a kernel developper and my previously proposed module (NATIVI,
>> which had the same problem) didn't seem to get interest from kernel or Xtables
>> developers :(
>>      
> On the contrary. If there was no interest, I would not have written a
> reply. But you seem to have chosen to ignore that and went away with "it
> fixed itself".
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg18073.html
>    

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