Re: sound blaster driver as a module

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:01:15 -0800

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On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:26:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> EXPORT_SYMBOL() causes a reference to it to get written into the
> exports tables so it is referenced.

No it doesn't. It creates a reference within the object file containing
the EXPORT_SYMBOL. This case is self-referential and so nothing happens.

This same reason is why we have things like sock_n_syms.o in net/Makefile.

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