From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:38:34 +1030
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On Wednesday 31 December 2008 09:32:41 Helge Deller wrote:
> BTW, although the comment states that arches can change section sizes 
> in the module_frob_arch_sections() function:
> /* Allow arches to frob section contents and sizes.  */
> it will break horrible if you do so.
> What I found was, that if you change sh_size, at least the module
> references / dependency chain will break when running lsmod.

Well, you can change the size of NOBITS sections: other things are likely
to be less successful.  You could probably make them smaller, though.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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