From: Pierre Rondou <prondou@gmail.com>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: evyncke@cisco.com, guy.leduc@ulg.ac.be,
Cyril Soldani <cyril.soldani@ulg.ac.be>
Subject: EXPORT_SYMBOL missing in the kernel?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:03:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDBACA6.2060501@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
I'm a student at the University of Liege, currently developing a NAT64
(see RFC 6146) module for Netfilter.
In order to develop this module, I had to use some in-kernel function,
such as icmp_send, ip6_output, ip_finish_output, ... and many more.
But many of those functions didn't have an "EXPORT_SYMBOL" allowing them
to be reachable from outside the kernel.
So, to be able to use them, I had to copy paste about 1500 lines of
kernel source code (those functions + related functions). This makes the
module hardly updatable as all those functions are likely to be updated.
Is there a reason why those functions are not associated with an
"EXPORT_SYMBOL"?
Regards,
Pierre Rondou
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 13:03 Pierre Rondou [this message]
2011-05-24 13:40 ` EXPORT_SYMBOL missing in the kernel? Eric Dumazet
2011-05-24 13:48 ` Pierre Rondou
2011-05-24 14:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-24 15:42 ` Pierre Rondou
2011-05-24 21:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-25 13:05 ` Pierre Rondou
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