Re: [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const

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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
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