In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010180941070.7090-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> you wrote:
> However, the fact that you need that dependency on CONFIG_MODULES _still_
> shows that something is wrong. That dependency should not be there, and
> the drm code should be fixed. Why does it care about CONFIG_MODULES at
> all? It should not, and it _must_ not do that.
Because get_module_symbol() needs CONFIG_MODULES.
IMHO we should simply get rid of get_module_symbol in drm.
> I have no idea what the get_module_symbol() code in question is trying to
> do, but this should be _fixed_ and not just worked around. That's a bug.
It gets the symbol of a function, that's name is passed as char * to
get_module_symbol().
Christoph
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