tree f336312f9476b62bc6f00a85d5506b1cd1c18d4f
parent de34ed91c4ffa4727964a832c46e624dd1495cf5
author Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> 1177970988 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1177976439 -0700

Extend print_symbol capability

Today's print_symbol function dumps a kernel symbol with printk.  This
patch extends the functionality of kallsyms.c so that the symbol lookup
function may be used without the printk.  This is useful for modules that
want to dump symbols elsewhere, for example, to debugfs.  I intend to use
the new function call in the GFS2 file system (which will be a separate
patch).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[clameter@sgi.com: sprint_symbol should return length of string like sprintf]
Signed-off-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>