Quoth Richard B. Johnson:
> You know, I hope, that you can kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) something in
> init_module() and it will always be resident in the kernel until
> you kfree() it in cleanup_module(). You do not have to
> allocate/deallocate every time your module does something.
I do not alloc/dealloc every time ;-). I allocate at boot and do not
bother deallocating at all. The module just uses that allocated memory
and maps it into the filesystem namespace.
> Bush : The Fourth Reich of America
Errr, not that I care, but as far as I know, America had not yet had
even its first Reich. ;-)... Germany had three, so a forth Reich might
have been there...
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Linguists do it cunningly
Marc A. Volovic marc@bard.org.il
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