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From: gustavoleite.ti@gmail.com (Gustavo Leite)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:42:44 -0300
Subject: Kconfig in external modules
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:15:43AM -0500, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> I'm not sure that NUMA balancing is something you'll be able to do in a module - I
> am pretty sure that not all the infrastructure you'll need is accessible from a module.
> If you're ending up tossing EXPORT_SYMBOL() all over the place, making your own
> code a module isn't going to help.

Right. I imagined it wouldn't be possible. All in all, module programming seems
like a good place to start learning about the kernel API and its inner workings.

Thanks once more :)
~ Gustavo