seq_open, et. al. are not exported for modules

Tommy Reynolds (reynolds@redhat.com)
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:39:11 -0600


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Alex,

The patch below, relative to 2.4.16, exports the seq_FOO symbols so they can be
used from a loadable kernel module.

BTW: could the "kmalloc()" calls be safely changed to "vmalloc()"?

--- linux/kernel/ksyms.c.orig Thu Nov 29 13:14:10 2001
+++ linux/kernel/ksyms.c Thu Nov 29 13:15:29 2001
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/in6.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <asm/checksum.h>

#if defined(CONFIG_PROC_FS)
@@ -559,3 +560,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_task_union);

EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pidhash);
+
+/* Sequential file systems */
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_open);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_read);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_lseek);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_release);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_escape);

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