Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:07:07 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: A hole in kernel space! |
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:09:34PM +0200, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > > I do not alloc/dealloc every time ;-). I allocate at boot and do not > bother deallocating at all. The module just uses that allocated memory > and maps it into the filesystem namespace. >...
Read pages 221-223 in
Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. Linux device drivers. O'Reilly, second edition, 2001. Online version: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
cu Adrian
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