From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262253AbVGLWLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:11:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262248AbVGLWJh (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:09:37 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:18570 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262399AbVGLWHL (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:07:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:07:05 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Adrian Glaubitz Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, trivial@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Runtime fix for intermodule.c Message-ID: <20050712220705.GA12906@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Adrian Glaubitz , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, trivial@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050712213920.GA9714@physik.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050712213920.GA9714@physik.fu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:39:20PM +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > This little patch adds the missing function declaration > of the deprecatated function call inter_module_get > to the header file include/linux/module.h and the > necessary EXPORT_SYMBOL to kernel/intermodule.c. Without > the declaration and the EXPORT_SYMBOL any module that requires > the inter_module_get call will fail upon loading > since the symbol inter_module_get cannot be resolved, > applying this patch will make those modules work again. There's a reason you shouldn't use it, and because of that it's not exported.