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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:39:24 am James Bottomley wrote:
> Even with the duplicate name, though, the module should be perfectly
> loadable.

In a perfect world, yes, but there are places which assume they'll be
unique and I always thought that reasonable.

Front of my mind is /sys/module/<MODNAME/sections/ which has one file
per section.

Let's figure out how it happened tho; I'd rather fail cleanly than break
subtly and horribly later...

Thanks,
Rusty.