Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends

2005-01-16 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 20:46 +, Richard Purdie wrote: > Without symbol_get, you can only have hard dependencies between the modules > and hence you would be forced into loading both modules even if you only > want one of them. > > I came across this function when trying to solve this exact pr

Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends

2005-01-16 Thread Richard Purdie
Rusty Russell: If it really wants dynamic symbol lookup, that's damn well what's going to happen. intermodule must die. If David doesn't want that feature any more, then sure, remove it. I can see one scenario where symbol_get would appear to be useful. Say you have two modules A and B. Both can