linux-kernel - Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?

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Message-Id: <200908251707.01610.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:07:01 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
	"linux-parisc" <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:39:24 am James Bottomley wrote:
> Even with the duplicate name, though, the module should be perfectly
> loadable.

In a perfect world, yes, but there are places which assume they'll be
unique and I always thought that reasonable.

Front of my mind is /sys/module/<MODNAME/sections/ which has one file
per section.

Let's figure out how it happened tho; I'd rather fail cleanly than break
subtly and horribly later...

Thanks,
Rusty.
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