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Re: question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Mar 20 04:49:30 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu (Tom Dyas)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:45:16 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM-RU.1.5.827273044.tdyas@er6.rutgers.edu> from "Tom Dyas" at Mar 19, 96 05:04:04 pm
> 2) Conditionally compile a protinfo union member if the protocol was
> configured into the kernel or if it was configured as a module. This
> will save some space since it can result in the minimum size
THis seems the best option.
> possible. However, it also presents the possibility that a protocol
> module can be inserted into a kernel that was not configured with the
> correct amount of space in the union which would result in overwrites
> or kernel segfaults. (The possibility is remote and there is a simple
> solution.)
If people stick a module in wrongly and crash their machine it is their
fault for not using versioned modules.
Alan
