Re: missing symbols...
"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
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Wm., Well, Arjan is still the RedHat kernel build captain isn't he? --brian On Wed, 09 Feb 2005, Wm. Reich wrote: > > Hello all... > regarding the missing symbols, > does anyone know if this is a 'RED HAT only' thing ? > or is kernel.org stimulating this change ? > wr > Dave Grothe wrote: > > At 11:38 AM 2/9/2005, Rodrigues, Edward wrote: > > Hi, > > In RHEL 4 kernel ( 2.6.9-5.EL), sleep_on() and sleep_on_timeout() > deprecated functions are removed from the kernel. Also cdev_put() > and cdev_get() functions are not exported. sleep_on() and > cdev_put() are used by LiS-2.18. Is any one addressing these > issues? > > In 2.6.10 kernel also cdev_get() and cdev_put() are un-exported. > This wasn't the case with 2.6.8 kernel. > > The kernel guys are screwing LiS once again. See the email > exchange that I posted a month or so ago. Basically, if a kernel > symbol isn't being used by some module that lives in the kernel > source tree, then it is no longer being exported. LiS has no vote. > Someone with more clout than me needs to get involved with this. > Are there any grownups out there? After all, both IBM and Intel > use LiS. > -- Dave > > -- > wr -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [email protected] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦