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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move __this_module to xxx.mod.c 
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302162225420.5217-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu> yo
u write:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> > I don't think so: the symbol will be in the module by the time
> > module-init-tools gets to it, or am I missing something?
> 
> Yes, but modprobe will look for .gnu.linkonce.__this_module if it wants to 
> change the name (but that's now in ___this_module).

Good point.  The name change thing is a known hack, of course, but
will fix userspace.

Rusty.
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