Re: freeing a static after one use only?

From: Martin Mares (mj@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 03:08:28 EST

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> They cheat and load a file. Its ugly its bad and Linus doesnt approve of
> the sound approach.
>
> You want to sit with most of the driver uninitialised until someone opens
> it and does an ioctl load-microcode, then finish registering the devices

In the future, we probably should extend __init/__initdata mechanism
to modules, so that microcode can be just a static __initdata array.

Have a nice fortnight

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