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Subject: Re: Newbie: added function not visible
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Genadz Batsyan <gbatyan@gmx.net>
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On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:59 +0200, Genadz Batsyan wrote:

> adding the function to keyboard.c, recompiling and booting with kernel
> results  /proc/kallsyms telling me that my function exists with the tag 'T',
> which I think is ok

You need to EXPORT_SYMBOL your new function.

For example,

	/* My pet dog is an idiot */
	void beat_dog(struct dog *d)
	{
		/* ... */
	}
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(beat_dog);

Good luck,

	Robert Love