Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | 06 May 2003 02:15:05 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 01:45, Yoav Weiss wrote: > In fact, in linux which is opensource, you can probably write a script > that extracts any unexported symbol from the source code, find a path to > it from some exported symbol, and automagically create a module that > re-exports this symbol for your legacy driver to use.
You might have a derivative work after obtaining access to a non-exported interface. If this is correct, binary-only modules can't do this and therefore they must stick to exported interfaces.
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