Re: do_softirq

[Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Keith.

I'm an experienced linux user, but a crappy kernel programmer :)  Always 
good to have clarity.

OT - Just ready about "The Search for The Holy Grail" on Slashdot. Keep 
wanting to say: "Behind the rabbit?"  Sorry... I'll go away now.
-Walt



Keith Owens wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:42:26 -0700, 
> Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is a different patch than the one I was aware of from the kml. Is
> > this preferred over the non-version symbol export? (Hope I didn't 
> > misunderstand that..) That one seemed to work well.
> Both patches are mine.  It required about 10 emails between various
> kernel hackers and digging into the more obscure bits of gcc to agree
> on a method of exposing calls to exported symbols from __asm__ code.
> The change to softirq.h is the correct mechanism, especially as you do
> not have to run make mrproper after applying the patch, changing from
> EXPORT_SYMBOL() to EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS() requires make mrproper.