>No normal kernel module requires tinkering with System.map.  Kernel
>modules use exported functions via normal linking and relocation.  This
>is what everyone uses.

Understood. How does one make a function export request?

>So if some module uses System.map, it wants to use not exported
>functions or violate the kernel license.  Function addresses are not
>even part of our ABI, so such modules are not even compatible between
>different builds of the kernel.  Sorry, but why should we support this?

>So you have a workaround.

I was hoping there was a way to avoid installing a package which weighs
several gigabytes...

Thanks!

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