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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "nkalmala@gmail.com" <nkalmala@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch] experimental: try-resolve-unexported-symbol-references-in-modules
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:11:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806281411.56263.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4864DFD2.60508@gmail.com>

On Friday 27 June 2008 22:40:50 nkalmala@gmail.com wrote:
> For purely experimental purposes, let the kernel resolve unexported-symbol
> references in external modules when loading them. Iff used carefully, this
> helps save time on development cycles. building testing experimenting
> certain kinds of changes becomes really fast.

This is unlikely to ever get into the tree.  And that's OK: AFAICT you can do 
it without any core kernel changes, by building a module which exports the 
symbols you need.

Cheers,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-28  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-27 12:40 [patch] experimental: try-resolve-unexported-symbol-references-in-modules nkalmala
2008-06-28  4:11 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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