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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:06:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>
Cc:        Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stale modules (Re: panic in the morning)
Message-ID:  <200004202006.QAA05867@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <38FF5369.7BE907CA@altavista.net>
References:  <20000419162806.A8502@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004191814410.73491-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000420112449.C51522@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <38FF44A6.F7C3C20B@cvzoom.net> <38FF5369.7BE907CA@altavista.net>

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<<On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:58:49 +0300, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net> said:

> Looks like *really* nice idea. This would allow to solve "stale
> modules" problem at minimal cost.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away... (well, OK, seven years ago, in
FreeBSD 1.0) I was working on developing a loadable-module system for
FreeBSD (which I eventually threw out when Terry Lambert donated his
LKM implementation).

In my version, the config file included statements like `module foo',
which config(8) interpreted as `link the files listed in the files
file as ``optional foo'' into a separate module foo.o'.

We can't do this for everything marked `optional' because not all of
those combinations actually make sense.

-GAWollman

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