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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:22:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
cc: Ben Rush <brush@cse.unl.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error Communicating With Module
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Ben Rush wrote:
> > 
> >         Hello, first of all I must tell you that I do not belong to this
> > mailing list as of yet, so, please respond to me via brush@cse.unl.edu.
> > Thank you very much in advance!
> > 
> >         My problem is as follows:
> >         I have added a variable named bens_variable to ksyms.c as follows:
> >         extern int bens_variable=10;
            ^^^^^^

Yes. But where is this allocated?? This statement says that it's
someplace else.

Remove "extern".

[SNIPPED]
> > 
> >         #define MODULE
> >         #define __KERNEL__
> >         #include <linux/module.h>
> >

	... add:

	    extern int bens_variable;
 
> >         int init_module(void){
> >                 printk(bens_variable);
> >                 return 0;
> >         }
> > 
> >         void cleanup_module(void){
> >                 printk("<1>Module Unloaded\n");
> >         }
> > 

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.


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