Re: missing symbols...

Dave Grothe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.streams
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 05:16 PM 2/9/2005, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
>Wm.,
>
>Well, Arjan is still the RedHat kernel build captain isn't he?

Yes.  Maybe if someone were to download the most recent 2.6 kernel and 
check the exported symbols for the missing ones we would have the answer to 
the question.

-- Dave


>--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
>
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