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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: pseudo device lkm's broken 
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:34:46 -0700
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> I think the Linux LKM system has shown enough of a win for putting them
> in kernel space that I'd like to at least try it.  If it's not a win,
> it's not a win, and you go with the external object massager.  Linux
> can run a lot of things as loadable modules and still not exceed the
> memory restriction for a kernel on a 4M machine.
> 

Now, why couldn't the kernel stick the symbols in a file on the rootfs
and free the memory ?  they're not used that much...

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Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?