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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:59:44 +0200
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On Friday 13 September 2002 08:51, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <E17pg3H-0007pb-00@starship> you write:
> > The same with the entrenched separation at the user level between
> > create and init module: what does it give you that an error exit
> > from a single create/init would not?
> 
> That's done for entirely different reasons, as the userspace linker
> needs to know the address of the module.

Thanks for clearing that up.  Perhaps a callback would have been
better, but it's obviously moot now.

-- 
Daniel
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