On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:56:36PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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? > Current prototype of user-space probes uses this feature. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/9/32 Thanks Prasanna -- Prasanna S Panchamukhi Linux Technology Center India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore Email: prasanna@xxxxxxxxxx Ph: 91-80-41776329 - 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
