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Re: use of EXPORT_SYMBOL()

On 12/5/05, Sabyasachi Pradhan <spradhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>      Thanks for the reply. I was trying the following. In the file
> linux/fs/super.c in 2.4.31 there is a line which is
> "LIST_HEAD(super_blocks);" ,I need to use superblocks in my module, so I
> just add "EXPORT_SYMBOL(super_blocks);" below the above line and recompile
> the kernel. Here super_blocks is a strcuture of type LIST_HEAD. Is this
> following procedure correct ? Thanks.
>

Yes, this is correct. By the way AFAIK any symbol without static is
by-default exported by kernel (CMIIW)

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