Attachment 861371 Details for Bug 1062669 – Updated version of driver symbols.

Updated version of driver symbols.

DriversPost (text/plain), 2.04 KB, created by George Beshers on 2014-02-10 12:17:47 UTC

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>########## drivers/base/class.c
>(__class_register)
>(class_unregister)
>
>The extint.ko and ioc4_extint.ko modules used these
>routines (the first indirectly via the class_register macro)
>to creat a class to which devices are added.
>
>########## drivers/base/core.c
>(dev_err)
>(_dev_info)
>(dev_warn)
>
>These are just conventient forms of printk(), if alternatives
>are considered preferable that isn't a big deal.
>
>(device_register)
>(device_unregister)
>
>These are used with low level character devices created
>byt the extint.k and ioc4_extint.ko modules.
>
>(device_create_file)
>(device_remove_file)
>
>These are used to handle the attributes of the device
>registered by the above symbols.
>
>(dev_set_name)
>
>Set this device name in the class; function has been unchanged
>since rhel6 and in Linus' current tree.
>
>########## drivers/char/misc.c
>(misc_deregister)
>(misc_register)
>
>Most of our modules create a misc character device and
>use these functions; these functions declarations have
>not changed from rhel6 to Linus' tree.
>
>########## drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
>(cpufreq_quick_get)
>
>Used by hwperf to get the frequency each cpu is running at; this
>is used mostly for recording pertainent machine configuration
>details with the performance results.
>
>########## drivers/misc/ioc4.c
>(ioc4_register_submodule)
>(ioc4_unregister_submodule)
>
>The ioc4 is legacy SGI hardware which we still need to support.
>These symbols are required to support some legacy oddball functionality.
>
>##########  drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp_main.c
>(xpc_connect)
>(xpc_disconnect)
>(xpc_interface)
>(xp_expand_memprotect)
>(xp_partition_id)
>(xp_restrict_memprotect)
>
>These symbols are all sgi-xp symbols; SGI is the only one
>likely to change them and we would only consider doing so
>to fix a serious error.
>
>##########  drivers/pnp/driver.c
>
>(pnp_register_driver)
>(pnp_unregister_driver)
>(pnp_get_resource)
>
>The large chuncks of memory that are reserved to be superpages
>are defined as reserved to the BIOS and passed to the the superpages
>module as an ACPI device, "superpages".   These symbols are
>required to handle that device.

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