[PATCH v4 02/21] kallsyms: Export kallsyms_lookup_name
Mukesh Ojha
quic_mojha at quicinc.com
Wed Jun 28 08:04:52 PDT 2023
On 6/28/2023 6:54 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:35 PM Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha at quicinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Module like minidump providing debugging support will need to
>> get the symbol information from the core kernel e.g to get
>> the linux_banner, kernel section addresses bss, data, ro etc.
>>
>> commit 0bd476e6c671 ("kallsyms: unexport kallsyms_lookup_name()
>
> Commit
>
>> and kallsyms_on_each_symbol()") unexports kallsyms_lookup_name
>> due to lack of in-tree user of the symbol. Now, that minidump
>> will one of its user, export it.
>
> users
>
> ...
>
> Is it a direct revert? Then make it visible by leaving pieces from `git revert`.
>
No, it is not direct revert..
> ...
>
>> -
>
> If not, drop this stray change.
ok
- Mukesh
>
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kallsyms_lookup_name);
>
>
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