Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> If you don't hold a reference, then yes, the module can go away.  This
> hasn't been a huge problem for users in the past.

There's a single users, and it has these problems.

> The lack of users is because, firstly, dynamic dependencies are less
> common than static ones, and secondly because the remaining inter-module
> users (AGP and mtd) have not been converted.

AGP doesn't use dynamic symbols anymore, only mtd is gone.  And I'd
rather see it not switching to symbol_get.

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