On Wednesday 13 July 2005 01:39, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > This little patch adds the missing function declaration > of the deprecatated function call inter_module_get > to the header file include/linux/module.h and the > necessary EXPORT_SYMBOL to kernel/intermodule.c. Without > the declaration and the EXPORT_SYMBOL any module that requires > the inter_module_get call will fail upon loading > since the symbol inter_module_get cannot be resolved, > applying this patch will make those modules work again.
> Affected modules are for example the ltmodem drivers > version 8.31a8 for lucent chipsets, they won't > work without the fix. Just to be sure I read what I read: you are asking for reexport of a function that was officially deprecated 9 months ago on the grounds that said reexport would be useful for a crappy [1] proprietary module? [1] Semi-randomly freezing serial mouse after loading. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
