Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263052AbVAFV7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:59:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263054AbVAFV7F (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:59:05 -0500 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:27610 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263052AbVAFV5b (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:57:31 -0500 Message-ID: <41DDB465.8000705@didntduck.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:57:57 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terence Ripperda CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: inter_module_get and __symbol_get References: <20050106213225.GJ6184@hygelac> In-Reply-To: <20050106213225.GJ6184@hygelac> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 26 Terence Ripperda wrote: > Hello, > > we've noticed that in recent 2.6.10 kernels that the inter_module_ > routines (such as inter_module_get) are marked deprecated. it appears > that the __symbol_ routines (such as __symbol_get) are intended as the > replacement routines. > > unfortunately, __symbol_get is only exported as a GPL symbol (I see a > reference to a _gpl verion in module.h, but no definition). is this > intentional? will there be a non-gpled version of an equivalent > routine? > > Thanks, > Terence I believe there is an AGP/DRM rewrite in progress that should eliminate the need to use inter_module or symbol_get stuff. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/