linux-kernel - Re: PATCH [1/1]: Don't return symbol lables in init sections after they have been freed

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Message-Id: <200804040941.42275.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:41:42 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH [1/1]: Don't return symbol lables in init sections after they have been freed

On Thursday 03 April 2008 08:01:25 Robin Getz wrote:
> On Tue 4 Mar 2008 20:43, Rusty Russell pondered:
> >     As to the actual patch, your kallsyms.c patch matches
> > a2da4052f1df6bc77749f84496fe731ab8b458f7's change to extable.c: please
> > resubmit with just that one.  For bonus points, look at combining the
> > extable and kallsyms logic so we don't diverge in future...
>
> OK since this took so long, I went for bonus points...

Looks good.  I don't have extratext in my kernel tho 
(v2.6.25-rc8-139-ge315c12).  Otherwise I'd suspect it should be consistently 
used between extable and kallsyms.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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