Re: [PATCH 1/3] module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module versions

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 17 2011 - 12:25:57 EST


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
> independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
> array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
> objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
> different situations.

Why not?

That's what we normally do. Just align the "__modver", and you should
be all good. What's the problem?

Linus
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