Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel.. | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:37:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> haven't finished this work yet. With this new work, however, the > end-user will still load a single module (e.g., tdfx.o), just like now. > (Loading a single kernel module is a significant win when dealing with > end users: there is no possibility of version skew or of having two > modules that were compiled with different options.)
So with 3 video cards I have 3 wasted chunks of ram just because of a tiny tiny possibility that someone would manage to build two copies of the library with matching ksyms. That doesnt strike me as a good tade off - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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