In article <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807151122010.3017@woody.linux-foundation.org> Linus wrote:
I also don't get why one can't put them in a module wrapper in some OTHER
dir as
__init__ fwFOO = something_huge_made_from_a_string ;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fwFOO);
and have the real driver module just reference fwFOO in its init sequence.
Modprobe can deal with where to look for it. No kernel source need be
tainted.
Peter
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