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Re: Question regarding EXPORT_SYMBOL again

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Subject: Re: Question regarding EXPORT_SYMBOL again
From: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:32:08 +0100
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:54:04PM -0700, jeff_zzz2001@yahoo.com wrote:

> I think I probably didn't fully understand what exactly "EXPORT_SYMBOL" do?
> Could someone give me some hints here?

basically it adds the symbol to the symbol table so that the module load
procedure can locate it. Compare the contents of /proc/ksyms vs. System.map - the first
shows symbols that can be found by modules.

john

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