Module loader against 2.5.46: Summary

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:04:00 +1100


Summary of module patches
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Still pending in my patchqueue (I didn't want to swamp Linus).
Other architectures (ppc, ppc64, sparc, sparc64, ia64)
Module license support
Exception table walk cleanup
Documentation on writing module-compatible interfaces
Modversions reimplementations (under discussion with Kai)
- Requires a second pass, but allows mixing of versioned &
non-versioned kernels and modules.

Not done yet:
DEVICE_TABLE support
- Discussions with gregkh on not exporting the in-kernel
datastructure and using module aliases.
Other archs (alpha, arm, cris, m68k, mips, mips64, parisc, s390,
s390x, sh, v850, x86_64)
Q
uestions welcome,
Rusty.

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