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Old 11-23-2010, 01:24 AM   #1
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Question what is thisModule.symvers for ?

Hi All ,
while building kernel , I found a tool to generate symbol list as following

scripts/mod/modpost -o Module.symvers vmlinux.o

is there any particular purpose why have to generate this file ?
 
Old 11-23-2010, 08:25 PM   #2
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See line 454 at this link:

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...ld/modules.txt
 
Old 11-25-2010, 08:20 PM   #3
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thank so many . didn't found this document before .
 
  


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