From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse),
vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik),
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make agpsupport work with modversions
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:55:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7155.972726918@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Oct 2000 05:40:28 EDT." <200010280940.e9S9eSx02362@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 05:40:28 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 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.
Existing code is not sane, it does not work with symbol versions. The
only code left in the kernel that uses get_module_symbol is agp, drm
and mtd, all of which I will be fixing at the same time.
>> 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.
Linus wants get_module_symbol removed.
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg08791.html
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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
2000-10-28 9:55 ` Keith Owens [this message]
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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