Re: freeing a static after one use only?

From: Tim Magill (tim@tengu.tmtrfl.tel.gte.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 16:09:40 EST


On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:54:46PM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> I have another request for help ... I humbly beseech such advice
> as may be bestown.
>
> I have a large static initialized array that that is compiled into a
> module (it's a translation table, int to char*). I want to
>
> use it once and then throw it away
>
> after it has been used for the purpose it was defined for: translating
> kernel data into another format. The latter will be supplied by the
> module to readers on demand.

  I'm not really up on drivers, so if this is stupid forgive me.

  Would it be possible to define the static data in its own loadable
module, that your driver could insmod and then rmmod?

tim

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