From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: faith@valinux.com (Rik Faith)
Cc: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens),
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List),
dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (DRI Development)
Subject: Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:37:47 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14DZ7u-0002wI-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14930.17815.720457.433064@light.alephnull.com> from "Rik Faith" at Jan 02, 2001 04:18:15 PM
> haven't finished this work yet. With this new work, however, the
> end-user will still load a single module (e.g., tdfx.o), just like now.
> (Loading a single kernel module is a significant win when dealing with
> end users: there is no possibility of version skew or of having two
> modules that were compiled with different options.)
So with 3 video cards I have 3 wasted chunks of ram just because of a tiny
tiny possibility that someone would manage to build two copies of the library
with matching ksyms. That doesnt strike me as a good tade off
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-31 20:24 Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel Linus Torvalds
2001-01-01 2:14 ` Adam Sampson
2001-01-01 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-01 19:15 ` Frank Jacobberger
2001-01-01 21:32 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-02 21:18 ` Rik Faith
2001-01-02 21:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-01-02 20:40 ` Adam Sampson
2001-01-01 19:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-02 2:51 ` Gerold Jury
2001-01-02 11:55 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-01-02 17:25 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-02 22:37 ` Gerold Jury
2001-01-02 22:55 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-01-03 0:38 ` Gerold Jury
2001-01-03 16:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-01-03 17:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-03 22:06 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-01-03 22:32 ` Russell King
2001-01-04 12:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-02 18:14 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-02 18:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-01-02 21:44 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-01-02 18:53 ` Dominik Kubla
2001-01-01 0:16 Ray Strode
2001-01-01 2:56 Ray Strode
[not found] <20010102190651.C26503@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org>
2001-01-02 21:16 ` Kai Germaschewski
[not found] <3A522A57.3050307@grips.com>
2001-01-03 0:37 ` David Woodhouse
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