Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Modutils 2.5 change, start running this command now | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 03 Oct 2001 00:48:50 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 00:36, Keith Owens wrote: > In current modutils, a module that does not export symbols and does not > say EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS defaults to exporting all symbols. This is a > hangover from kernel 2.0 and will be removed when modutils 2.5 appears, > shortly after the kernel 2.5 branch is created.
This is an excellent move.
> Starting with modutils 2.5, modules must explicitly say what their > intention is for symbols. That will break a lot of existing modules. > The command below lists the modules on your system that will be > affected. All code maintainers need to run this against their 2.4 > modules and do one of two things. Either export the required symbols > (remember to add the .o file to export-objs in the Makefile) or add > EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS; somewhere in the module (no change to Makefile).
Once 2.5 starts, I'll be happy to go over modules with this script and fix up stuff that is unmaintained.
> objdump -h `modprobe -l` | \ > awk '/file format/{file = $1}/__ksymtab/{file = ""}/\.comment/ && file != "" {print file}'
-- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net
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