From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move __this_module to xxx.mod.c
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:53:28 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030217051727.6778B2C0AD@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:26:48 MDT." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302162225420.5217-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302162225420.5217-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu> yo
u write:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > I don't think so: the symbol will be in the module by the time
> > module-init-tools gets to it, or am I missing something?
>
> Yes, but modprobe will look for .gnu.linkonce.__this_module if it wants to
> change the name (but that's now in ___this_module).
Good point. The name change thing is a known hack, of course, but
will fix userspace.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-17 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-16 21:23 [PATCH] Move __this_module to xxx.mod.c Brian Gerst
2003-02-17 1:57 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-17 2:29 ` Brian Gerst
2003-02-17 3:42 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-17 4:26 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-17 4:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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