| From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [patch 16/17] Immediate Values - Documentation | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:33:35 +1000 |
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On Thursday 10 April 2008 01:08:45 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > If you have to read the immediate values from a function declared as > __init or __exit, you should explicitly use _imv_read(), which will fall > back on a global variable read. Failing to do so will leave a reference to > the __init section after it is freed (it would generate a modpost > warning).
That's a real usability wart. Couldn't we skip these in the patching loop if required and revert so noone can make this mistake?
Thanks, Rusty.
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