On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:34:08PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote: > > > First, when this has come up in the past, the first question > > is why is this useful, given that with the hardware and > > peripherals in question, loadable drivers aren't really > > useful (and don't shoot the messenger please). > > Right now I mainly use it to debug a driver, which would run out of host > ram when I reloaded it > > > Second, you removed the EXPORT_SYMBOL for the old alloc, but > > I didn't see quickly how a module would make use of the new > > infrastructure since there weren't any new EXPORT_SYMBOLs. > > This is because I did my patch against 2.6.5, and all the EXPORT sympols > are in arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c > and not in commprocs.c > > In ppc_ksyms.c I have: > extern uint m8260_cpm_dpalloc(uint size, uint align); > extern uint m8260_cpm_hostalloc(uint size, uint align); > extern uint m8260_cpm_hostfree(uint ptr); > extern uint m8260_cpm_dpfree(uint ptr); > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_dpalloc); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_hostalloc); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_dpfree); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_hostfree);
Er? Aren't dpfree/hostfree new functions? I didn't see them added as exports in your patch, and regardless they belong in comproc.c now. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
