Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 10:59:44 EST


On Friday 13 September 2002 08:51, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <E17pg3H-0007pb-00@starship> you write:
> > The same with the entrenched separation at the user level between
> > create and init module: what does it give you that an error exit
> > from a single create/init would not?
>
> That's done for entirely different reasons, as the userspace linker
> needs to know the address of the module.

Thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps a callback would have been
better, but it's obviously moot now.

-- 
Daniel
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