Re: Insmod problem

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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:24:33AM -0800, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have written a device driver which references
> certain kernel symbols.unfortunately those symbols are
> not being exported.
> i added a line EXPORT_SYMBOL(relevant_symbol); 
> at the end of each file where the symbols were defined
> 
> Still the symbols have not found their way to
> /proc/ksyms 
> 
add the EXPORT_SYMBOL macros to kernel/ksyms.c and not 
at your own source files. Now recompile the kernel and
it should work.

BTW: bear in mind that symbols are exported/un-exported on purpose.
There is usually a better way to do something than by exporting an 
unexported symbol.

> 

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