On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:33:56 am Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >From 03f1332fc02af7af0d06ab409e3ec72107637845 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:47:20 -0800 > Subject: [PATCH] module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module parameters > > As DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into independent > objects, put them into a special section, and then expect array > access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the > objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices > in different situations. The only solution that seems to work > reliably is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in > question and put those pointers in the special section. I've applied this, but won't put it to linux-next. I'll let it stew for a bit longer unless someone actually reports a problem with the current code. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
