Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go? | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:03:02 +0000 (GMT) |
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David Woodhouse writes: > We don't need to overdesign it. get_module_symbol() basically provided > this for us. The only thing really wrong with it was the lack of use > count handling, which I fixed a while ago.
And the fact that it doesn't work if you turn module support off, which you'd want to do on an embedded kernel. Unfortunately, this is one of the times when you do want the MTD stuff. You either have to put up with no MTD support, write your own, or put up with the extra space of module symbols.
Therefore, get_module_symbol() as it stood was the wrong interface to use, and I completely agree with Keiths decision to remove it. However, I'm not sure that the inter_* stuff that replaced it is much better for the reasons David has highlighted previously wrt link ordering. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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