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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Ian Jiang <ianjiang.ict@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] 2.4.21 insmod problem: unresolved symbol to_virt
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:10:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610260210.05495.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061025152635.GC4323@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:26, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:04:00AM +0800, Ian Jiang wrote:
> > In fact, I used to export the symbol to_virt in um/kernel/physmem.c
> > where it was defined.
>
> There is no to_virt defined in physmem.c in my tree now.
>
> > But this had no effect. What is the difference
> > between the ksyms.c and physmem.c while exporting symbols? Could you
> > give an explanation?
>
> There shouldn't be any difference.  physmem.c already exports some stuff,
> so there's no reason it can export more.
On 2.4 kernels (and no Jeff, your tree is not a 2.4) EXPORT_SYMBOLS only works 
on some special files (like ksyms.c) devoted to this (they're marked in 
Makefile's); on 2.6 you can add the export everywhere and it will work.

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20  6:02 [uml-devel] 2.4.21 insmod problem: unresolved symbol to_virt Ian Jiang
2006-10-20 16:37 ` Jeff Dike
2006-10-23  2:04   ` Ian Jiang
2006-10-25 15:26     ` Jeff Dike
2006-10-26  0:10       ` Blaisorblade [this message]

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