Messages in this thread | | | From | Robin Getz <> | Subject | Re: module version magic and arches with symbol prefixes | Date | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:07:45 -0400 |
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On Fri 19 Jun 2009 09:14, Mike Frysinger pondered: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:54, Robin Getz wrote: > > On Fri 19 Jun 2009 01:38, Rusty Russell pondered: > >> No, it means the kernel didn't build properly. > > > > Or a module didn't build properly. > > nah, when i talked to you earlier i was wrong -- this find_symbol() is > looking up the symbol in the kernel, not in the module. the lookup of > the symbol in the requested module actually works.
OK - Yeah, I see it now in the kernel proper. (sorry for the noise)
Wouldn't it make sense to move this somewhere else then? and add a __initcall() for it? We should only need to check for it once - it would make things insignificantly faster, and smaller :)
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