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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: procfs LKM broken now!
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> >This is a kernel linking issue.  If the kernel is supposedly exporting
> >these services, then they must exist regardless of whetheror not they
> >are used.
> 
> >The X11 code gets around this by causing references in a function code
> >body for which the function itself is never called, but for which the
> >object module being included is mandatory.
> 
> Ok, I like this variant. Who is our LKM commiter(s) to address this
> discussion?

Garett Wollman.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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