> > browsing through more network driver sources shows that some drives
> > don't initialize this name buffer, which may cause similar problems
> > (btw, it's interesting (shocking?!) how many different code versions
> > for the module/device initialisation can be found).
>
> Why.. You are forcing a block of BSS (ie all zero) to be 0..
why? only because most other drivers use the same initialzisation for
their static array for device name and because I didn't know
(and wasn't sure) that it's guaranteed [for all time] that these
arrays are initialized with zero. as my problem showed, it's
important that they _are_ initialized, so I thought better be sure...
> The quote fixes stuff is definitely right. Constant strings may not
> be writable
hmm, non-writable strings would hit quite a number of network driver modules
at this point...
Harald
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