From: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Organization: Blackfin uClinux org
To: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: module version magic and arches with symbol prefixes
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:07:45 -0400
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On Fri 19 Jun 2009 09:14, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:54, Robin Getz wrote:
> > On Fri 19 Jun 2009 01:38, Rusty Russell pondered:
> >> No, it means the kernel didn't build properly.
> >
> > Or a module didn't build properly.
> 
> nah, when i talked to you earlier i was wrong -- this find_symbol() is
> looking up the symbol in the kernel, not in the module.  the lookup of
> the symbol in the requested module actually works.

OK - Yeah, I see it now in the kernel proper. (sorry for the noise)

Wouldn't it make sense to move this somewhere else then? and add a 
__initcall() for it? We should only need to check for it once - it would make 
things insignificantly faster, and smaller :)

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