From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262294AbVCPJF1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:05:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262296AbVCPJF1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:05:27 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:15277 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262294AbVCPJFW (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:05:22 -0500 Subject: Re: dereferencing module-internal pointer in scripts/mod/file2alias.c From: Rusty Russell To: Dominik Brodowski Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050308070522.GA5435@isilmar.linta.de> References: <20050308070522.GA5435@isilmar.linta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:36:40 +1100 Message-Id: <1110814600.17013.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 08:05 +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any feasible way to dereference a pointer inside > __mod_*_device_table which points to a string? No, because we would basically need to perform relocations to do so. That is why arrays are used in the current structures. Rusty. -- A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman