Re: 2.6.17-mm2

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On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:16:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:22:43 -0700
> 
> Actually we should be able to address this pretty simply by disallowing
> exports of symbols which are in the __init section.  There's no sense in
> exporting something which ain't there.
> 
> IOW, any reference from __ksymtab, __ksymtab_gpl or __ksymtab_gpl_future
> into __init or __initdata should be a hard error.
We could let modpost error out. Then the module does not get build but
we detect it a bit later than optimal.

	Sam
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