From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
"Linux kernel mailing list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: module version magic and arches with symbol prefixes
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:37:36 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906231637.38819.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906191307.45135.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:37:45 am Robin Getz wrote:
> On Fri 19 Jun 2009 09:14, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:54, Robin Getz wrote:
> > > On Fri 19 Jun 2009 01:38, Rusty Russell pondered:
> > >> No, it means the kernel didn't build properly.
> > >
> > > Or a module didn't build properly.
> >
> > nah, when i talked to you earlier i was wrong -- this find_symbol() is
> > looking up the symbol in the kernel, not in the module. the lookup of
> > the symbol in the requested module actually works.
>
> OK - Yeah, I see it now in the kernel proper. (sorry for the noise)
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to move this somewhere else then? and add a
> __initcall() for it? We should only need to check for it once - it would
> make things insignificantly faster, and smaller :)
Patch welcome.
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-18 15:24 module version magic and arches with symbol prefixes Mike Frysinger
2009-06-19 5:38 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-19 7:49 ` [PATCH] module: use MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX with module_layout Mike Frysinger
2009-06-19 14:02 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-19 18:29 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-19 12:54 ` module version magic and arches with symbol prefixes Robin Getz
2009-06-19 13:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-19 17:07 ` Robin Getz
2009-06-19 18:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-23 7:07 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-06-29 12:07 ` Robin Getz
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