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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>,
        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>,
        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) 
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welcome to solaris.

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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