On Tuesday 16 May 2006 23:11, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > As for symbol_put_addr - well we've had absolutely zero response to the > > patches - both you and Trent have tried to get someone to look at 'em on > > LKML, and there's been complete silence... did we have a compat.h patch > > so that we can experiment using symbol_put_addr() in the meantime? If one > > of you wants to send it, I'll update the repos to use it and remove the > > chaining so we can see what that looks like. > > My fix for symbol_put_addr() is now in the mainline git, thanks to > Johannes' persistence. As for a compat.h fix, I do not think it can be > done. In order to do the address -> module lookup you need at the minimum > to use either module_text_addr() or to walk the list of modules. > module_text_addr() is not exported, so you can't call it from a module. > The module list is static to kernel/module.c, so you can't get to it > either. Ah excellent, glad to hear it! > If symbol_put_addr() is used, I think the only solution for older kernels > will be to disable dynamic dependencies. OK. I don't see that as a big problem as this isn't a critial feature. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
