Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev and exported symbols

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > The default behavior for a module is to export all public functions,
> > > when no explicit EXPORT_SYMBOL is present.
> > 
> > Is this `new' behavior? I never heard about that before.
> 
> nope, definitely not new behavior.
> 
> put a test module in export-objs of a Makefile, include a few public
> functions and include linux/module.h... then see what appears :)

Then we indeed have to explicitly disable symbol exporting, except for the few
drivers that need it (matroxfb).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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