From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 30 13:08:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14806 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14761 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA06921 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA02480; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:43:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704301843.LAA02480@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:43:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Apr 30, 97 08:19:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The important point is that there is *no difference* between the dynamic > and statically loaded version of a driver. I can go into a > /sys/compile/FOO directory and construct loadable modules from the same > object files. Yes. This has always been one of the major design goals, and Doug is a stud for having finally sat down and achieved it. It was always known that it would take a kernel linker to do this, FWIW. Kudos to Doug. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.