On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:28 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > I had assumed that for a module the global initialized variables were > > loaded at module load. That then is a problem given that new devices > > (and drivers) are appearing quite rapidly. I therefore do not understand > > how the global initialized variables from an externally compiled kernel > > module get added into the kernel image - does "depmod" do that? > > Sorry... I don't follow you here. > Nicolas I obviously do not understand how the kernel build tools deal with the global initialized variables, and at the present time I have too many other priorities. But thanks for your explanation which I partially understood (I think) Tony Olech -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
