RE: strict rejection of init -> core references causes problems

Luck, Tony
2004-07-09T15:59:06Z

>The recent patch of yours to the kernel module loader is causing some
>problems with the netfilter modules. To recap, with that patch
>applied, calls from the core section of a module to an init section
>are rejected because that's in general a dangerous thing to do (the
>called code may be gone by the time the call gets executed).

I was worried that this might be the case. I did try loading a
selection of stuff as modules, and didn't hit the problem, but
I obviously didn't have netfilter configured as a module.

I'll make a patch to re-allow this later today.

-Tony