From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Olech Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: USB SDIO/SD/MMC Host Controller (VUB300) driver Resubmission Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:43:17 +0000 Message-ID: <1295887397.1677.40.camel@apple-mac> References: <20B0EAA71DD7413A9A29D0493C6C1D87@AN00536> <20101116150022.GA27726@void.printf.net> <27884BED0E3C489C8849EE12A803F536@AN00536> <4CE41BE3.1060806@elandigitalsystems.com> <4CEA86D4.9050109@elandigitalsystems.com> <1295607004.1816.6.camel@apple-mac> <1295858946.1677.3.camel@apple-mac> <1295881846.1677.9.camel@apple-mac> <1295885309.1677.21.camel@apple-mac> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:55603 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753397Ab1AXQnb (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:43:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Chris Ball , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, David Vrabel On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:28 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > I had assumed that for a module the global initialized variables were > > loaded at module load. That then is a problem given that new devices > > (and drivers) are appearing quite rapidly. I therefore do not understand > > how the global initialized variables from an externally compiled kernel > > module get added into the kernel image - does "depmod" do that? > > Sorry... I don't follow you here. > Nicolas I obviously do not understand how the kernel build tools deal with the global initialized variables, and at the present time I have too many other priorities. But thanks for your explanation which I partially understood (I think) Tony Olech