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From: "Rusty Lynch" <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
To: "Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       "Wang, Stanley" <stanley.wang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.5.49] symbol_get doesn't work 
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:19:53 -0800
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<snip>
> Hi Wang,
> 
> Thanks for the bug report, but I think you misunderstand.
> symbol_get() does not take a string, it takes an identifier.  This
> way, we can ensure the type is correct.  eg.
> 
> /* In header somewhere. */
> extern int their_integer;
> 
> ....
> int *ptr = symbol_get(their_integer);
> if (!ptr) ...
> 

I couldn't find a single file in the kernel that uses this.  What
would be the appropriate scenario for using this?  Is there
code in the kernel that is suppose to migrating to this?

    -rustyl 

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