Using kld functions in other kld's?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:28, Mrzh wrote:
> I'm trying to access one kld's functions from another kld in FreeBSD 5.3.
> Even though I have non-static functions in my first loaded kld, subsequent
> kldload of another kld that refers to those symbols gives me "link_elf:
> symbol blahblahblah undefined". I was able to do this kind of thing in
> FreeBSD 4.x before.
>
> Is what I'm trying to do possible in FreeBSD 5.3?  What could be source of
> the problem? Thanks very much for any reply!

A KLD's symbols aren't exported by default (any more?) so you can only access 
the public interfaces.
See EXPORT_SYMS in /usr/src/sys/conf/kmod.mk

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