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Module loader against 2.5.46: Summary

DISCUSSION Rusty Russell 1 participant 1 message Nov 5, 2002

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Summary of module patches
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Still pending in my patchqueue (I didn't want to swamp Linus).
Other architectures (ppc, ppc64, sparc, sparc64, ia64) Module license support
Exception table walk cleanup
Documentation on writing module-compatible interfaces Modversions reimplementations (under discussion with Kai)
- Requires a second pass, but allows mixing of versioned & non-versioned kernels and modules.

Not done yet:
DEVICE_TABLE support
- Discussions with gregkh on not exporting the in-kernel datastructure and using module aliases.
Other archs (alpha, arm, cris, m68k, mips, mips64, parisc, s390,
s390x, sh, v850, x86_64)
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uestions welcome,
Rusty.
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