Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:08:28 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: freeing a static after one use only? |
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> They cheat and load a file. Its ugly its bad and Linus doesnt approve of > the sound approach. > > You want to sit with most of the driver uninitialised until someone opens > it and does an ioctl load-microcode, then finish registering the devices
In the future, we probably should extend __init/__initdata mechanism to modules, so that microcode can be just a static __initdata array.
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