Re: [PATCH 2/7] modules: mark find_symbol static
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jul 29 2020 - 12:24:48 EST
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:13:18PM +0200, Jessica Yu wrote:
> +++ Christoph Hellwig [29/07/20 08:27 +0200]:
> > find_symbol is only used in module.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> CCing the livepatching ML, as this may or may not impact its users.
>
> AFAIK, the out-of-tree kpatch module had used find_symbol() in the
> past, I am not sure what its current status is. I suspect all of its
> functionality has been migrated to upstream livepatch already.
We still have symbol_get(), which is what I thought they were using.
If only we could get rid of that export one day...
thanks,
greg k-h