Re: freeing a static after one use only?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 07:05:17AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> 
> > I have a large static initialized array that that is compiled into a
> > module (it's a translation table, int to char*). I want to
> > 
> >   use it once and then throw it away
> 
> vi://TheSource/include/linux/init.h/__initdata

He was talking about modules, and modules don't support .init discarding.
modutils do support it, yet the kernel does not. I wrote a patch for this a
few years ago, but after numerous failed attempts to get it into 2.3 I gave
up. With hotplug it is less useful, but eventhough there are many modules
for which it could be a win.
You can search l-k for the patch, or might look it up if you're interested.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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