Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL issue

[Amit Kucheria <amitk@ittc.ku.edu>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John Levon wrote:

> > I have some code (X) that gets compiled into the kernel and a module (Y).
> > Now X defines some function pointers that i need to access in Y.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > So I exported the pointers using EXPORT_SYMBOL and by compiling file X 
> > using OX_OBJ. This should allow it to export symbols.
> 
> hmm, rather old kernel ?

yeah...its a 2.2.18 kernel...i picked up the Makefiles of some of the SCSI 
drivers to hack.

> > But somehow, module Y is still not able to find the symbols. 
> 
> Does it appear in /proc/ksyms ? If so, then you're building your module
> wrongly.

Nope it does NOT appear in /proc/ksyms.
What are the includes necessary for EXPORT_SYMBOL? Is MODVERSIONS necessary?

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