Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:23:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Update for the serial driver. |
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > "struct pci_dev" contains the name of the PCI device ("dev->name", > surprise, surprise), and it has been copied there from __initdata > information that is discarded after bootup so that we don't waste run-time > memory on keeping all the PCI names around when they aren't needed (ie > only the devices that were found have the name).
We need to be able to do this with code too. Modules that will never be used in a kernel's lifetime should be discarded.
My portable library for S3 video hardware will eventually have several modules. For example, the s3generic, s3virge, and s3virge_video modules might be needed if you are a ViRGE owner, but the s3trio and s3savage modules would not be needed.
Regards,
Jeff
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