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Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 16:53:52 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To:     Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] printk: Add consoles to a virtual "console" bus
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On Fri 2019-03-01 16:48:19, Calvin Owens wrote:
> This patch embeds a device struct in the console struct, and registers
> them on a "console" bus so we can expose attributes in sysfs.
> 
> Early console structures must still be static, since they're required
> before we're able to allocate memory. The least ugly way I can come up
> with to handle this is an "is_static" flag in the structure which makes
> the gets and puts NOPs, and is checked in ->release() to catch mistakes.

I wonder if it might get detected by is_kernel_inittext().

Best Regards,
Petr