On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:19:36PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >Hey guys, something that I've always wanted to do was actually somehow >export those handy description strings from the kernel SYSCTL macros >in the least obtrusive method possible.
Likewise. >The only thing I could come up with that didn't require compiling the >files twice was to basically do some tricks where the text strings >wound up in some throw-away section of the object files. Many years ago I started to look at this: My idea was to stick the description strings into an ELF section that was not loaded. >Then these would be copied into /boot or maybe some other place >as part of the install process. If the relevant ELF sections are marked unloadable then there's no reason not to just leave them in the kernel/kld file. >Any ideas/pointers on how to do this linker magic? This is where I failed: My ld-foo wasn't sufficient to create the required linker scripts to make it all work. I don't remember if I kept the work I did. I thought I mentioned it on a mailing list but can't find it in my home archives or on google. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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