On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Nikolai ZHUBR <zhubr@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Luis! > > Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 4:17:40 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> They don't have to be exported and inlined, its one or the other. So > Yes, that's what I supposed. >> just ensure you your symbols you have conflicts with as >> EXPORT_SYMBOL() or defined in a header file as inline. You will >> obviously also need the header declaration if defined as an >> EXPORT_SYMBOL. > From what I checked it all looks fine to me, except that there is > a circular dependency between cfg80211 and rfkill_backport (which > is confirmed by nm output I suppose). Is this circular dependency > intentional? Or, could it be avoided? (My understanding was that > as module loader loads one file at a time, it just have no way > to resolve such symbols, maybe I'm wrong on this) Hmm, yes and no... insmod loads modules one at a time; but as long as you run depmod, modprobe loads dependent modules automatically. I don't know if modprobe works for circular dependency, but it probably works correctly (since AFAIK, it reference-counts)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
