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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move __this_module to xxx.mod.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:57:04 MDT."
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302161946220.5217-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu> yo
u write:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
> > This patch moves the module structure to the generated .mod.c file, 
> > instead of compiling it into each object and relying on the linker to 
> > include it only once.
> 
> Yeah, it's something I though about doing, but I was not sure. I think 
> it's up to Rusty to comment ;)
> 
> It will need an associated change to module_init_tools.

I don't think so: the symbol will be in the module by the time
module-init-tools gets to it, or am I missing something?

Rusty.
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