Re: [patch 06/61] lock validator: add __module_address() method

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue May 30 2006 - 13:44:29 EST


On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 18:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

>
> I'd suggest that __module_address() should do the same thing, from an API neatness
> POV. Although perhaps that's mot very useful if we didn't take a ref on the returned
> object (but module_text_address() doesn't either).
>
> Also, the name's a bit misleading - it sounds like it returns the address
> of a module or something. __module_any_address() would be better, perhaps?

How about __valid_module_address() so that it describes exactly what it
is doing. Or __module_address_valid().

-- Steve

>
> Also, how come this doesn't need modlist_lock()?


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