Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 08:46:32 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Matthew Fleming <matthew.fleming@isilon.com> Subject: Re: Dynamic ddb commands Message-ID: <200902020846.33072.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1233339897.13748.106.camel@amaretto> References: <1233337318.13748.101.camel@amaretto> <1233339897.13748.106.camel@amaretto>
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On Friday 30 January 2009 1:24:57 pm Matthew Fleming wrote: > Just an addenda: > > > I see that BSD 7.1 has dynamic commands using sysinits and sysuninit's to call a new > > db_[un]register_cmd. > > I was looking at HEAD, not RELENG_7_1. The remainder of my questions as > to why this mechanism are the same, though. In general it is far easier to just add sysinit's than to hack directly on the kernel linker. There are very few ddb commands, so one extra pointer or two per command is not a lot of space. -- John Baldwin
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