Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:59 +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> what weak symbol support? can I actually use gcc weak symbols and have
> it all work?

Weak undefined symbols used to work, certainly. The MTD code used them
for a while, before kaos imposed the inter_module_crap on it despite my
objections.

> what happens if the module goes away? 

If another module is using a weak symbol, IIRC the module providing the
symbol _can't_ go away. I could be wrong -- I didn't use that
functionality. I was using get_symbol() and I added put_symbol() so I
could explicitly refcount it. 

-- 
dwmw2


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