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From: "shesha bhushan" <bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Exporting Kernel Symbols
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OK I got this working. It was a very silly thing.
linux/fs/read_write.c had not included <linux/module.h> But the kernel 
compilation was not complaining about the useage of EXPORT_SYMBOL without 
including <linux/module.
Now its working fine.

Thanks
-Shesha


>From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
>To: "shesha bhushan" <bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: Exporting Kernel Symbols
>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:26:10 -0800
>
>On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:22:48 +0000
>"shesha bhushan" <bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>| Hi,
>|   I have written a new function in linux/fs/read_write.c and I want to 
>make
>| the function avaliable to other kernel modules loaded using insmod.
>| He is what I did:
>| 1. Wrore the func my_func() in linux/fs/read_write.c
>| 2. Used the macro EXPORT_SYMBOL(my_func) inside linux/fs/read_write.c
>| 3. Have a signature of my_func in my_func.h
>| 4. Include my_func.h in linux/fs/read_write.c and my_driver.c
>| 5. Recompiled the kernel
>| 6. Compiler my_driver as loadable module.
>| 7. Brought my new kernel Up.
>| 8 . Insmod my_driver.o
>| Here I get the error "Unresolved symbol my_func"
>| Can any one clarify this.
>
>For what kernel version?
>
>In 2.4.20, e.g., in linux/fs/Makefile, change the following line:
>
>export-objs := filesystems.o open.o dcache.o buffer.o
>
>to include read_write.o
>
>--
>~Randy
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