lstrncpy_from_user symbol not exported

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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:59:49 -0500
From: William Waites
Subject: lstrncpy_from_user symbol not exported
To: [email protected]

Hello,

I am running LiS on Linux/parsic. The streams kernel module uses the strncpy_from_user function which on parisc is macro that calls lstrncpy_from_user. This function is not exported by the kernel, so the module gets an unresolved symbol. The following patch fixes this.

Index: arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.4/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c,v retrieving revision 1.49

diff -u -r1.49 parisc_ksyms.c
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lcopy_from_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrnlen_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lclear_user);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrncpy_from_user);
 
 #ifndef __LP64__
 /* Needed so insmod can set dp value */

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In reference to a message from William Waites, dated Mar 04:

commited, thanks

randolph

Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/