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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Sean Hunter <sean@dev.sportingbet.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: modules and 2.5 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jul 2001 07:50:50 +0100."
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:50:50 +0100, 
Sean Hunter <sean@dev.sportingbet.com> wrote:
>Does this defeat my favourite module-related gothcha, that the machine panics
>if I have (say) a scsi driver builtin to the kernel and the same driver tries
>to load itself as a module?

No, but other wip for 2.5 will.  My 2.5 makefile rewrite already
defines for each object, the module it would be linked into if it were
a module.  That gives me a list of all the "modules" already in the
kernel which is what is required to prevent duplicate loads.

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