Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > At Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:35:00 -0800, > Mike Smith wrote: > > In order to deal with this problem, I have changed the module build > > process so that symbols global to the module are converted to local > > symbols when the module is linked into the .kld/,ko file. In order > > to allow modules that intentionally export symbols to continue to do > > so, a new module makefile variable 'EXPORT_SYMS' has been implemented. > > Hi Mike, > [... pass on this stuff ...]
> Even if this problem is fixed, I suppose another problem there. > Even if I set EXPORT_SYMS=YES, I cannot resolv module symbols. > e.g. > > kldload module1 > kldload module2 > > module2 cannnot resolv symbols in module1. > > -stable doesn't have this problem. module2 cannot resolve symbols in module1 unless there is a declared dependency. This is intentional, otherwise there is no way to check that module1 is not unloaded while module2 is using it. Stable is lacking this enforcement. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
