From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module loader preparation
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:39:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021018022503.2B1A22C24E@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:33:08 +0100." <20021017143308.A24271@infradead.org>
In message <20021017143308.A24271@infradead.org> you write:
> I don't think requiring a init func is a good idea. Please fix
> your module loader to generate a stub if no module_init() is
> present instead.
But where do you generate the module name (a module now knows its own
name, in the .modulename section)? We could do an extra step in the
module build where we generate this and link it in, bit given that
we're talking about a handful of trivial modules, I don't think it's
worth it.
> init_module() sounds like a good idea to me, though.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-18 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 3:31 [PATCH] Module loader preparation Rusty Russell
2002-10-17 13:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-18 1:39 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-10-17 16:02 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-18 2:55 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-18 21:52 ` Kai Germaschewski
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