Re: [PATCH] Export handle_mm_fault to modules.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 18:45:05 EST




On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:02:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > The only thing that has ever exported it afaik is
> >
> > arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(handle_mm_fault); /* For MOL */
> >
> > and that looks pretty suspicious too (what is MOL, and regardless,
> > shouldn't it be an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?).
>
> Mac-on-Linux, see http://www.maconlinux.org/. Run MacOS in a virtualized
> machine under Linux (or the other way around). It's GPL.

Ok. Then I suspect the right patch is this one. Stelian, can you verify?

Linus
---
diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
--- a/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__res);

EXPORT_SYMBOL(next_mmu_context);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_context);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(handle_mm_fault); /* For MOL */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__handle_mm_fault); /* For MOL */
EXPORT_SYMBOL(disarm_decr);
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU
extern long mol_trampoline;
-
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