Re: Kernel oops after drmfntbl-0-0-2-20040824-merge

[Sam R. <sa...@ra...>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:41:19AM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
> Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
> >It should be possible to avoid the whole DRM(fff) thing using linker 
> >directives to designate what symbols are exported from the final 
> >drm_xyz.o object, in the same way that static symbols don't get exported 
> >from individual object files.
> 
> That can be done without any linker magic by just putting 
> __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) on functions / variables that 
> aren't supposed to be exported.  I don't know if that's how the main 
> kernel folks would want it done, though.

I have not looked into this in detail.
But I fail to see how DRM are different than for example lib-sata,
that do not play all these tricks.

	Sam