On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:00:39AM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: > I understand that making file operations .rodata was > to prevent binary driver authors overriding individual > file_operations members at runtime. No, it's not. operation vectors should always be const for correctness. Msarking them const ensures that, aswell as avoiding false cache sharing, etc. Nothing about licenses at all. And example for things this is supposed to prevent is the stuff you did in the userspace probes after smoking far too much crack. - 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