Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/7] modules: mark find_symbol static | From | Joe Lawrence <> | Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:25:58 -0400 |
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On 7/29/20 12:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:13:18PM +0200, Jessica Yu wrote: >> +++ Christoph Hellwig [29/07/20 08:27 +0200]: >>> find_symbol is only used in module.c. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> >> >> CCing the livepatching ML, as this may or may not impact its users. >> >> AFAIK, the out-of-tree kpatch module had used find_symbol() in the >> past, I am not sure what its current status is. I suspect all of its >> functionality has been migrated to upstream livepatch already. > > We still have symbol_get(), which is what I thought they were using. >
The deprecated (though still in the repo) kpatch.ko still references find_symbol(), but that module is no longer officially supported by the project.
Jessica is correct that the functionality has been migrated upstream.
I don't see any references to symbol_get() either, so we're good on that front, too.
Thanks,
-- Joe
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