Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:21:32 +1100 |
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:27:04 +0200 (CEST), Patrick van de Lageweg <patrick@bitwizard.nl> wrote: >This patch renames the block_til_ready of generic serial to >gs_block_til_ready. This patch also exports the symbols needed by other >modules with generic_serial compiled into the kernel. > >(it also helps when other modules have a "static block_til_ready" >defined. This IMHO is a bug in the module-utils, but I'm told it >cannot be fixed becuase of backwards compatibility.... Grrr. -- REW)
modutils for kernel 2.5 will break that backwards compatibility, it goes all the way back to 2.0 kernels. But if I broke backwards compatibility just before 2.4 kernel release, there would be a lynch mob headed my way. In any case, block_til_ready is too generic a name for an exported symbol.
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