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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:07:05 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> > Guessing is this patch ?
> > 
> > gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch:           __tracedata_end = .;
> > gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch:+  _sdata = .;                     /* End of text section */
> 
> This patch is a horrible hack to try to see if kobjects are static and
> not dynamically created.

You could perhaps use something like module_address_lookup() for this
debugging aid.