Re: Module Initialisation Data

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:44:41 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Tom Gallagher wrote:

> I noticed that under later kernel releases I can flag functions and data
> in modules as initialisation only so they are thrown away. This is good
> because I can throw away my hardware microcode which is fairly large but
> if I have any PCMCIA devices I need to keep it so that I can reinitialise
> the card later on if it is pulled out and inserted again. Is there a way
> to optionally flag initialisation code and data as non discardable at
> runtime.

Don't flag them as initialisation only in the first place if they'll be
used after initialisation.

Tim.
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