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From: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com>
To: "Roland McGrath" <roland@redhat.com>,
		"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: patch for module function probe
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CBDB88BFD06F7F408399DBCF8776B3DC06D80CC2@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)

Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Yes, it might be.  It would be best if there was a way of
>> automagically supporting module("foo") for a foo that's compiled
>> into vmlinux with a CONFIG_FOO=y instead of CONFIG_FOO=m.  Does
>> kbuild leave any traces of the module ancestry in object files
>> produced this way? 
> 
> I don't think there is any way to recover that information.

Even if there were a way, this justs exacerbate the problem that started
this thread.  If CONFIG_FOO=y and someone also compiles and loads an
unrelated module foo, which would you turn to for resolving
module("foo")?


Josh

             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03 21:47 Stone, Joshua I [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-03  8:56 Mao, Bibo
2006-04-03  9:06 ` Li Guanglei
2006-04-03  9:24   ` bibo mao
2006-04-03 10:03     ` Li Guanglei
2006-04-03 16:14   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-04-03 19:16     ` Roland McGrath

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