Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: freeing a static after one use only? | Date | Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:50:29 +0100 (MET) |
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"A month of sundays ago Tim Magill wrote:" > On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:54:46PM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > use it once and then throw it away > > > Would it be possible to define the static data in its own loadable > module, that your driver could insmod and then rmmod?
It's been suggested. I gave it a try just now, but got oopses. Possibly address space and/or unwanted optimization issues.
And how do I load one module from another, then unload it?
I settled for making the data module depend on the function module, but not vice versa. I then loaded the data module, which forced the function module to load first. The data module did its thing, and I would have unloaded it next, but it oopsed ...
Peter
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