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From: Denys Vlasenko
Subject: alternatives in modules
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 5:36 am

Hi Mathieu,

I was looking through kernel/module.c and if understand it
correctly, it doesn't handle .altinstructions in modules at all.
Am I reading code correctly?
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From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Subject: Re: alternatives in modules
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 5:42 am

Hi Denys,

See
arch/i386/kernel/module.c:module_finalize()
it calls apply_alternatives().
(and is called by load_module)


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