From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>,
Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-modules@vger.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] module: unexport each_symbol()
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:45:19 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909240945.19499.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090923220022.GB30818@infradead.org>
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:30:22 am Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:29:43PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> > While Ksplice is not in-tree yet, Ksplice is a user of each_symbol (and in
> > fact was the reason why each_symbol was originally exported). Is it easy
> > to modify your patch series so that you don't have to remove each_symbol?
>
> We don't keep symbols for out of tree junk around.
I expected ksplice to go in earlier, actually. I applied their export patch
to ease the transition.
I'd still like to see ksplice merged, but it's a big hunk of code.
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 13:38 module: Speed up symbol resolution during module loading Alan Jenkins
2009-09-22 13:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] module: extract __ExPORT_SYMBOL from module.h into mod_export.h Alan Jenkins
2009-09-22 14:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-09-22 14:45 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-22 15:45 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-22 15:50 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-22 15:55 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-22 13:38 ` [PATCH 2/4] kbuild: sort the list of symbols exported by the kernel (__ksymtab) Alan Jenkins
2009-09-22 14:48 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-09-22 15:08 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-23 17:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-09-22 13:38 ` [PATCH 3/4] module: unexport each_symbol() Alan Jenkins
2009-09-23 17:29 ` Tim Abbott
2009-09-23 18:36 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-23 22:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-24 0:15 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-09-26 12:13 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-22 13:38 ` [PATCH 4/4] module: speed up find_symbol() using binary search on the builtin symbol tables Alan Jenkins
2009-09-23 17:28 ` [PATCH 0/2] Use generic binary search function Tim Abbott
2009-09-23 18:08 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-23 17:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel Tim Abbott
2009-09-24 0:11 ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-27 17:05 ` Tim Abbott
2009-11-03 15:14 ` Thiago Farina
2009-11-03 15:34 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-23 17:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] module: use bsearch in find_symbol_in_kernel_section Tim Abbott
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