From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 30 19:44:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01625 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:44:51 -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 TAA01609 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:44:47 -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 MAA07075 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA02534; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:03:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704301903.MAA02534@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:03:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM In-Reply-To: <199704301546.BAA30982@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 1, 97 01:46:12 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 > >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. Heh. Death is a feature. It means humans aren't properly designed. I'd have to say that like death, this is a "feature' I could live without. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.