Re: [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Jan 24 2006 - 13:34:04 EST


On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:19:45PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Currently, modular input support fails to load with the following error:
>
> qube:# modprobe input
> input: Unknown symbol kobject_get_path
> input: Unknown symbol add_input_randomness
>
> In the short run, this can be solved by exporting these two symbols.
> There have been discussions about fixing this in a different manner,
> see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.2/1068.html
> Since this was in the days of 2.6.12-rc4 and modular input support is
> still broken, I suggest these symbols to be exported for now.

Is there actually any practical reason why you would want to
make the input layer modular ?

Dave

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