Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:08:54 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module |
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On 1/24/06, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:34:32PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:19:45PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Currently, modular input support fails to load with the following error: > > > > > > qube:# modprobe input > > > input: Unknown symbol kobject_get_path > > > input: Unknown symbol add_input_randomness > > > > > > In the short run, this can be solved by exporting these two symbols. > > > There have been discussions about fixing this in a different manner, > > > see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.2/1068.html > > > Since this was in the days of 2.6.12-rc4 and modular input support is > > > still broken, I suggest these symbols to be exported for now. > > > > Is there actually any practical reason why you would want to > > make the input layer modular ? > > More interesting question: is pis^H^H^Hsysfs interaction in there safe for > modular code?
The core should be safe, at least I was trying to make it this way, so if you see something wrong - shout. Locking is another question though...
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