On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 01:45, Yoav Weiss wrote:
> In fact, in linux which is opensource, you can probably write a script
> that extracts any unexported symbol from the source code, find a path to
> it from some exported symbol, and automagically create a module that
> re-exports this symbol for your legacy driver to use.
You might have a derivative work after obtaining access to a
non-exported interface. If this is correct, binary-only modules
can't do this and therefore they must stick to exported interfaces.
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