2003-09-11 08:56:59

by Jani Monoses

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Subject: about kernel/ksyms.c

Hi

what is the reason for symbols being exported from ksyms.c instead of
the files they are defined in?

thanks
Jani


2003-09-11 15:40:44

by John Levon

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Subject: Re: about kernel/ksyms.c

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:45:57AM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:

> what is the reason for symbols being exported from ksyms.c instead of
> the files they are defined in?

Historically you had to explicitly specify which files exported symbols
in the makefile. That's not true any more, and recent style seems to be
to do what you suggest. But it's not really worth the trouble of
redistributing the stuff in ksyms.c except as part of other patches IMHO

regards
john

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