Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:54:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970430125353.32333C-100000@zen.cypher.net> In-Reply-To: <199704301729.MAA23345@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
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not at all! i love being able to dynamically reconfigure my kernel in solaris without having to recompile things. VSTa takes an even more extreme path on this and makes pretty much everything a library in userland. b3n On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Chris Csanady wrote: > > >welcome to solaris. > > Are you implying that this is a *bad* thing? > > >On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Chris Csanady wrote: > > > >> > >> >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. > >> > >> How about a statically loaded version of the kernel? I mean, will it now > >> be nothing more than an aggregate of some modules? It would be nice if > >> all there were were modules, and to make yourself a kernel, you just > >> had to stick them together.. > >> > >> --Chris Csanady > >> > >> >-- > >> >Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > >> >Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 > >> > > >> > >> > >> > > >
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