Re: freeing a static after one use only?

[Alan Cox]

> It's  much larger than the thing it's used to create, so there is no
> advantage in overwriting it with the result.
> 
> (I imagine that some of the lowlevel sound card drivers do this, when
> they want to load firmware).

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

Alan