From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "nkalmala@gmail.com" <nkalmala@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] experimental: try-resolve-unexported-symbol-references-in-modules
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:11:55 +1000
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On Friday 27 June 2008 22:40:50 nkalmala@gmail.com wrote:
> For purely experimental purposes, let the kernel resolve unexported-symbol
> references in external modules when loading them. Iff used carefully, this
> helps save time on development cycles. building testing experimenting
> certain kinds of changes becomes really fast.

This is unlikely to ever get into the tree.  And that's OK: AFAICT you can do 
it without any core kernel changes, by building a module which exports the 
symbols you need.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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