>>> Michal Marek <[email protected]> 13.07.09 10:11 >>> >Jan Beulich napsal(a): >> Actually I meanwhile think that module-init-tools can easily detect the >> changed >> layout without any further kernel side adjustments: Since it is known that a >> CRC always is a 32-bit value, simply checking whether the so-far-used 64-bit >> value has more than 32 significant bits should suffice: If so, the new layout >> is being used (with the symbol name starting at offset 4), else the old one >> is >> in effect (name at offset 8). This ought to be a pretty trivial change to >> that >> code. > >But old module-init-tools will continue reading garbage in this case.
And would you think returning nothing is significantly better than returning garbage? Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
