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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.



  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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