Re: [PATCH] Export symbols so CONFIG_INPUT works as a module

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:19:45PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
 > Currently, modular input support fails to load with the following error:
 > 
 > qube:# modprobe input
 > input: Unknown symbol kobject_get_path
 > input: Unknown symbol add_input_randomness
 > 
 > In the short run, this can be solved by exporting these two symbols.
 > There have been discussions about fixing this in a different manner,
 > see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.2/1068.html
 > Since this was in the days of 2.6.12-rc4 and modular input support is
 > still broken, I suggest these symbols to be exported for now.

Is there actually any practical reason why you would want to
make the input layer modular ?

		Dave

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