From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modutils 2.5 change, start running this command now
Date: 03 Oct 2001 00:48:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1002084533.858.1.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31135.1002083784@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <31135.1002083784@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 00:36, Keith Owens wrote:
> In current modutils, a module that does not export symbols and does not
> say EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS defaults to exporting all symbols. This is a
> hangover from kernel 2.0 and will be removed when modutils 2.5 appears,
> shortly after the kernel 2.5 branch is created.
This is an excellent move.
> Starting with modutils 2.5, modules must explicitly say what their
> intention is for symbols. That will break a lot of existing modules.
> The command below lists the modules on your system that will be
> affected. All code maintainers need to run this against their 2.4
> modules and do one of two things. Either export the required symbols
> (remember to add the .o file to export-objs in the Makefile) or add
> EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS; somewhere in the module (no change to Makefile).
Once 2.5 starts, I'll be happy to go over modules with this script and
fix up stuff that is unmaintained.
> objdump -h `modprobe -l` | \
> awk '/file format/{file = $1}/__ksymtab/{file = ""}/\.comment/ && file != "" {print file}'
--
Robert M. Love
rml at ufl.edu
rml at tech9.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-03 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-03 4:36 Modutils 2.5 change, start running this command now Keith Owens
2001-10-03 4:48 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-10-03 8:17 ` Russell King
2001-10-03 11:59 ` Keith Owens
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-11 11:45 Keith Owens
2001-10-12 6:34 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-10-12 10:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-12 11:37 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-12 12:14 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-12 14:40 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-12 15:01 ` Tom Rini
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