Messages in this thread | | | From | "Richard Purdie" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:46:07 -0000 |
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Rusty Russell: > If it really wants dynamic symbol lookup, that's damn well what's going > to happen. intermodule must die. If David doesn't want that feature > any more, then sure, remove it.
I can see one scenario where symbol_get would appear to be useful. Say you have two modules A and B. Both can run independently of the other. If and only if both are loaded at the same time they need to exchange data.
Without symbol_get, you can only have hard dependencies between the modules and hence you would be forced into loading both modules even if you only want one of them.
I came across this function when trying to solve this exact problem. If the function is going to be removed, what is the alternative? Apologies if I've missed something obvious...
Richard
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