Re: [RFC v3 PATCH 6/7] Ksplice: Export symbols needed for Ksplice

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Nov 22 2008 - 01:34:23 EST


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:36:00PM -0500, Jeff Arnold wrote:
> Ksplice uses init_mm to get access to the ranges of addresses
> containing core kernel text and data. It seems that init_mm was
> scheduled to be unexported entirely in 2.6.26, so move it to
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (rather than back to EXPORT_SYMBOL).

Umm, no. This is a very clear indicator that your code shouldn't be
modular.

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