Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:43:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Where is __this_module actually defined? |
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On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Naren Devaiah wrote:
> > I've looked in the 2.4.0-pre10 source tree and found it defined as > extern struct module __this_module; > in module.h (among other files), but where is it actually defined? >
it isn't -- it's magic, of course :). The way it works is for insmod to arrange things in such a manner that &__this_module resolves to point to the beginning of module's address space, which happens to contain 'struct module' at the beginning.
Regards, Tigran
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