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Date:      Thu, 1 May 1997 01:46:12 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM
Subject:   Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...)
Message-ID:  <199704301546.BAA30982@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>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.

You can consider this a feature.  If something fails to link due to a
reference to a nonexistent linker set, then the something isn't properly
ifdefed for minimality.

Bruce



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