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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote: > > please apply this too then. I would prefer instead just avoiding the copy altogether, and just save the name pointer - with no length restrictions. Right now the code has the comment /* Copy name over so we don't have problems with unloaded modules */ but that was written before "kmem_cache_destroy()" existed, and we should long ago have fixed any modules that don't properly destroy their caches when they exit (and yes, I know the difference between "should" and "did", but that's not an excuse for a bad interface). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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