Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:12:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new Kernel Module System Message-ID: <199703311712.KAA09639@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199703310227.SAA06086@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Mar 30, 97 06:27:51 pm
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> >> 1.2. Lifecycle of an LKM > >> > >> The user initiates a module load (either by mounting a filesystem > >> or by explicitly calling modload(8)). > > > >This is a hack brought on because the loader is not in kernel space. > >This was a policy decision by the FreeBSD core team. > > It was? I've always advocated for the linker to be in the kernel and I > don't recall any other core member disagreeing. The reality from my point > of view is that this is simply the way we got the code from you. Garrett disagreed; this is not to say that he didn't have good reasons, but I believe the benefits outweigh the additional size and other issues which he raises. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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