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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Rusty Lynch" <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>,
	"Wang, Stanley" <stanley.wang@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.5.49] symbol_get doesn't work
Date: 29 Nov 2002 10:31:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buohee16u19.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021128234536.DC53A2C113@lists.samba.org>

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> > > int *ptr = symbol_get(their_integer);
> > > if (!ptr) ...
>
> That's because it's a new primitive.  Very few places really want to
> use it, they usually just want to use the symbol directly.  However,
> there are some places where such a dependency is too harsh: it's more
> "if I can get this, great, otherwise I'll do something else".

I find the name a bit wierd, BTW -- it sounds like it's going to return
the _value_ of the symbol.  How about something like `symbol_addr' instead?

-Miles
-- 
`To alcohol!  The cause of, and solution to,
 all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-29  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-26  8:14 Wang, Stanley
2002-11-26 23:27 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-27 23:19   ` Rusty Lynch
2002-11-28 23:42     ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-29  1:31       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-11-29  2:02         ` Sean Neakums
2002-11-29  2:11           ` Miles Bader
2002-11-29  3:29         ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-27  1:30 Wang, Stanley
2002-11-28  3:01 ` Rusty Russell
     [not found] <957BD1C2BF3CD411B6C500A0C944CA2601F116A1@pdsmsx32.pd.intel.com>
2002-11-29  0:01 ` Rusty Russell

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