Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:48:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com, (Michael Smith) <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Continual Education (was Re: A Desparate Plea) Message-ID: <XFMail.970430155303.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <199704301836.LAA02447@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Hi Terry Lambert; On 30-Apr-97 you wrote: > > A relevant question. Most LKMs are loaded once and never unloaded; > > these aren't a problem source. The LKM framework was a bit of a > > kludge at the time, and has perhaps not been brought completely up to > > snuff simply because it worked "well enough". > > Speaking as the appologist for the LKM code (I wrote the original)... > > Actually, it wants DEVFS to solve some of the sticky problems and > hacks it would otherwise have to engage in. The ongoing "imminent > arrival" of DEVFS has had at least something to do with it not being > updated. Last I tried defvs, I managed to crash my system. I think when shutting down or unmounting the filesystem. As I do not really know what devfs is good for, I did not pursue it. > It would also be a lot easier to do a general kernel loader shared > between image activation and module loading if FreeBSD would go to > ELF. That's been a minor factor. No! ELF on BSD?? :-)) Simon
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