From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261956AbVAHJej (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 04:34:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262006AbVAHJeR (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 04:34:17 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.195]:38953 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261956AbVAHGIx (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 01:08:53 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=RZ1/8G8/mpdSU4t/ccqHuFIriDJNKd6ZFSw6w4DQ5nq7QMxV6TxPbuDctmWc6nud5Dw447DTyJkrL8+d7G1oeP4AGchnfjF6249w4i64BMtl26iDyduYvjKh4H5fnKzh0jNSxgmskqJ0EJqrVdzaNeYKNAtp47A3YZ41ASHPMnk= Message-ID: <9e473391050107220875baa32b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 01:08:52 -0500 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol from I2C eeprom driver Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <20050108055315.GC8571@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <9e47339105010721347fbeb907@mail.gmail.com> <20050108055315.GC8571@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:53:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:34:44AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Trivial patch to export a symbol from the eeprom driver. Currently > > there are no exported symbols. The symbol lets the radeon DRM driver > > link to it and modprobe will then force it to load along with the > > radeon driver. > > Why do you need this symbol? Or are you just saying that you need the > eeprom driver loaded for some reason? > > I say this as this variable is probably going to go away in the very > near future, as it isn't really needed at all. I just need a symbol to force eeprom to load, it can be any symbol. I need something for the radeon driver to link to so that modprobe will know to force eeprom to load when radeon is loaded. radeon is getting hotplug code that needs the eeprom module loaded. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com