->You can't change the addresses of variables or functions if the only
->information you have available is the System.map file. The addresses
->of variables and functions in the kernel are resolved at link time and
->are encoded in the instructions themselves.
"address of var encoded into instruction themselves".
I realized that a while after I wrote my post :(
->I might add that I believe that what you're trying to do is extremely
->hard to get right. Changing an off-by-one error which just means
->replacing a JLT with a JLE instruction (were both instructions are the
->same size and have the same operands) is almost simple. Doing more
->complex changes makes my brain ache, just thinking about it. :-)
In case of ip_glue() my luck was that all function/variables which ip_glue
used were either exported symbols or were pointers. So it was straight-
forward to write ip_glue_new() and change first few instructions of
ip_glue() to JMP to the ip_glue_new().
Since it seems that it is dead-end, I think I'll just polish code a bit
and post it on web ... mabye some one comes up with better idea.
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