From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 13 00:22:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA12785 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA12622 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA08776; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:20:40 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA14748; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:20:40 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id IAA10956; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:54:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603130754.IAA10956@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: the symbol tabel of a loadable driver is not loaded To: chen@Ipsilon.COM (Jerry Chen) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:54:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org, jre@Ipsilon.COM Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <314623F0.12A7@ipsilon.com> from "Jerry Chen" at Mar 12, 96 05:25:04 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jerry Chen wrote: > In FreeBSD 2.0.5, modload does not load the symbol table > into the kernel. Even if it would: it were of no use for you. Since the driver is loaded to a dynamic location, the symbol table as created by ld(1) won't match the reality. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)