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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Broken device LKM in 2.2 
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:18:51 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> 
> I guess nobody makes device type LKM's in 2.2.. but sys/lkm.h is
> broken with respect to them. Here's a hack that fixes this. Perhaps
> the "name ## _module", which is different from the other module
> types, is there for some reason (?)

IIRC it's there to avoid symbol conflicts with statically loaded 
versions.  Could be wrong of course; there's nothing in the CVS log.

> Anyway, it's incompatible with the DISPATCH macro defined later in
> the file, and this fixes it...

Has anyone looked at this?  Should we buy it?

mike