From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop some attibutes from the FC transport class Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:12:00 -0600 Message-ID: <20050120051200.GA20064@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20050119171357.GA16136@lst.de> <20050119172106.GB32702@kroah.com> <20050119213924.GG5508@us.ibm.com> <20050119224016.GA5086@kroah.com> <20050119230350.GA23553@infradead.org> <20050119230855.GA5646@kroah.com> <20050119231559.GA10404@lists.us.dell.com> <20050119234219.GA6294@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from lists.us.dell.com ([143.166.224.162]:20698 "EHLO lists.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261812AbVATFMM (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:12:12 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050119234219.GA6294@kroah.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Christoph Hellwig , jejb@steeleye.com, James.Smart@Emulex.Com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Here it was against 2.6.9. Odds are it doesn't apply anymore due to > some recent changes in this area. If anyone wants to take it and fix it > up, please do so. > > Note, this patch needs the evil strdup() function to work properly. > That's one of the main reasons I decided to not submit it to the main > kernel tree... How would you feel if instead, we just didn't drop the .modinfo section? That would eliminate the need to copy the strings, and then the field##_get_function would just use the string from the .modinfo section directly? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com