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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Module loader against 2.5.46: 9/9
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    On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:47:27 +1100, 
    Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
    >Since I believe kallsyms is important, this reimplements it sanely,
    >using the current module infrastructure, and not using an external
    >kallsyms script.
    >
    >FYI, the previous interface was:
    >
    >int kallsyms_symbol_to_address(
    > const char *name, /* Name to lookup */
    > unsigned long *token, /* Which module to start with */
    > const char **mod_name, /* Set to module name or "kernel" */
    > unsigned long *mod_start, /* Set to start address of module */
    > unsigned long *mod_end, /* Set to end address of module */
    > const char **sec_name, /* Set to section name */
    > unsigned long *sec_start, /* Set to start address of section */
    > unsigned long *sec_end, /* Set to end address of section */
    > const char **sym_name, /* Set to full symbol name */
    > unsigned long *sym_start, /* Set to start address of symbol */
    > unsigned long *sym_end /* Set to end address of symbol */
    > );
    >
    >The new one is:
    >/* Lookup an address. modname is set to NULL if it's in the kernel. */
    >const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr,
    > unsigned long *symbolsize,
    > unsigned long *offset,
    > char **modname);

    If you are going to change the interface then don't call it kallsyms.
    kallsyms and that interface were designed to kernel debugging in
    general and kdb in particular. I need all the fields for decent
    debugging and I refuse to allow my kallsyms code to be appropiated for
    somebody else's usage if it stops kdb from working!

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