On 3/17/06, Rajaram Suryanarayanan <rajaram_linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody please explain these ? > > 1. What is /proc/kallsyms file ? What does it contain ? > It's a list of all kernel symbols and their location/entry points. > 2. What is meant by a module exporting symbols to the kernel ? > > 3. What is EXPORT_SYMBOL() ? > EXPORT_SYMBOL() is used to mark a symbol as exported - exported in this context means "available to modules". Loadable modules can only access kernel symbols that have been exported. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
