Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:37:47 +0000 (GMT)


> 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
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