On Thursday 10 January 2008 02:24:40 Paulo Marques wrote:
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> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Or better, rework all the name lookup interfaces, rather than having:
>
> Yes, there is some rework we can do here....

Hi Paulo,

	Yes, it just needs some thought...

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> > extern int sprint_symbol(char *buffer, unsigned long address);
> > extern void __print_symbol(const char *fmt, unsigned long address);
>
> These 2 are probably fine.

Except they're awful for the !CONFIG_KALLSYMS case.  You really want something 
that that prints the name if available and the address otherwise.

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> I can do a patch for this, but this will touch a few subsystems that use
> these interfaces (there are not a lot of them, though). The major change
> would probably be the allocation of a small buffer (56~60 bytes) in some
> of the callers to hold the module name.

Indeed.

I look forward to your patch!
Rusty.
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