On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 23:15:27 +0000 (GMT),
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>Your patch looks like it'll work. Although I don't really see any
>advantage over {get,put}_module_symbol() in this case, it does look like
>it can be used to finally provide module persistent storage, which will be
>useful.
Cleanliness. All other module data flows go via explicit symbols which
are fixed up at link time or via registration functions. Having a few
sources that use a third mechanism which forces people to use
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS() to make it work is messy and redundant.
I'm not sure why you think this can be used for module persistent
storage. If a module calls inter_module_register() on load, it should
call inter_module_unregister() on unload. All the registered data
points into the loaded module, remove the module and the storage
disappears as well.
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