Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:02:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970430105937.819A-100000@terra> In-Reply-To: <199704301402.AAA27241@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Bruce Evans wrote: > Actually, it builds tables of functions at link time using linker > sets. The functions are then used early at runtime to build the > devsw tables. This implementation was expedient 17 months ago and > bad 16 months ago. I agree on the comment re linker sets. I would like to see these vanish for a simple reason: try sometime to build a really minimal kernel and it will fail at link time since there are missing linker sets. ouch. By minimal, i mean minus any file systems for example. And yes, I do have a use for this. ron
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