In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> Dan Aloni wrote:
>> >
>> > reason: Correct me if I'm wrong, but 3c501.c:init_module() calls
>> > net_init.c:register_netdev(&dev_3c501), which calls strchr(),
>> > {and might also,which might} dereference dev_3c501.name.
>>
>> There is no dereferencing involved, and therefore no problem.
>
>Well, at least I was alertive. Almost a bug fix ;-)
>Is there a special reason why dev->name is not a pointer?
It used to be.
And we used to have an incredible number of bugs with initialization and
with creating these things dynamically. A lot of Space.c was due to
horrible hackery with getting the static allocation right for these
things. Turning it into a plain array got rid of all the hackery, and
saved memory anyway.
Linus
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