From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262559AbVGMITX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:19:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262599AbVGMITX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:19:23 -0400 Received: from zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.35.155]:35302 "EHLO zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262559AbVGMITU (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:19:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:19:17 +0200 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Runtime fix for intermodule.c Message-ID: <20050713081916.GA32417@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <20050712213920.GA9714@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20050712220705.GA12906@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050712220705.GA12906@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Adrian Glaubitz X-Scanned: No viruses found. X-Spam-Report: No (score -5.9) -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Scan-Signature: 2b1399c8af50b046452a5f406d32ed9f Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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. I am sorry ! Since I didn't see any reason why not, I added the export to code again to make my modem work with the latest kernel versions. Well, I will need to try to fix the driver then. I think I can use symbol_get instead, can't I ? Regards, Adrian Glaubitz