On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:00:39AM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Same as with already do with the file operations: > > keep them in .rodata and prevents people from doing runtime patching. > > I understand that making file operations .rodata was > to prevent binary driver authors overriding individual > file_operations members at runtime. > > This patch prevents even GPL code from overriding address_space > operations. There might be in kernel users who want to override > address_space operations. Are there any existing in-kernel users who wish to override these operations? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html