Re: [PATCH] Export symbol from I2C eeprom driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:53:16 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:34:44AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > Trivial patch to export a symbol from the eeprom driver. Currently
> > > there are no exported symbols. The symbol lets the radeon DRM driver
> > > link to it and modprobe will then force it to load along with the
> > > radeon driver.
> > 
> > Why do you need this symbol?  Or are you just saying that you need the
> > eeprom driver loaded for some reason?
> > 
> > I say this as this variable is probably going to go away in the very
> > near future, as it isn't really needed at all.
> 
> I just need a symbol to force eeprom to load, it can be any symbol.  I
> need something for the radeon driver to link to so that modprobe will
> know to force eeprom to load when radeon is loaded. radeon is getting
> hotplug code that needs the eeprom module loaded.

Then why not try to load the module from your hotplug script?

And why do you need the eeprom driver for the radeon driver to work
properly?

thanks,

greg k-h