Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:31:12 +0100
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On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 18:19 +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Currently, modular input support fails to load with the following error:
> 
> qube:# modprobe input
> input: Unknown symbol kobject_get_path
> input: Unknown symbol add_input_randomness
> 
> In the short run, this can be solved by exporting these two symbols.
> There have been discussions about fixing this in a different manner,
> see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.2/1068.html
> Since this was in the days of 2.6.12-rc4 and modular input support is
> still broken, I suggest these symbols to be exported for now.


better make these _GPL exports to make sure people understand these are
internal things...


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