Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL and rebinding functions

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It's currently being done in a user space application which I am porting
to a kernel module. Is there some other way of accomplishing the same
thing safely?

On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 21:47 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:19:41PM -0700, Peter Tosh wrote:
> > Is this just a horrible idea in general? Can you give some kind of
> > general explanation?
> 
> Messing with symbol address is a horrible idea in general.
> 
> Step back, what problem are you trying to solve that ended up with this
> type of proposed solution?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h



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