From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kallsyms_lookup)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:31:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406171731.i5HHVA0M015051@car.linuxhacker.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040617162927.GA12498@kroah.com>
Hello!
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
GK> Distros have started to ship kernels with this patch, as it seems that
GK> some unnamed binary module authors are already abusing this function (as
GK> well as some open source modules, like the openib code.) I could not
GK> find any valid reason why this symbol should be exported, so here's a
What if some extra carefully written code detects some (non fatal) problem in
itself and decides to dump a decoded backtrace to some internal log buffer,
user will find this later and will send a bugreport to developers?
(yes, there are problems with simply doing dump_stack()).
Or perhaps we need dump_stack version that will print the dump into a
supplied buffer then?
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 16:29 Greg KH
2004-06-17 17:31 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2004-06-17 17:50 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 19:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 20:14 ` Dave Kleikamp
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