Alan Cox wrote: > This is to protect it from being changed by an attacker or someone trying > to do strange and bogus things to the kernel. >
Someone who apparently hasn't heard of vmap(), etc. It's a debug aid at best. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/