Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:41:14 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module
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References: <20060124181945.GA21955@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060124183432.GA27917@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:34:32PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:19:45PM +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.
> 
> Is there actually any practical reason why you would want to
> make the input layer modular ?

More interesting question: is pis^H^H^Hsysfs interaction in there safe for
modular code?
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