> > 
> > That isn't a new problem: that's the same problem that has always
> > existed.  This is why mdb modules are separate from mdb itself,
> > and why we have the wrapper script, and the archives of mdb modules.
> > If you're looking at the dump you need the modules from it.
> 
> I wasn't sure we had that level of guaranteed MDB module API
> compatibility, and I worried about mdb_ks. But I just tried it, and it
> even works. There's a little fiddling to get mdb_kb.so and mdb_ks.so in
> place, but still, it looks good.
> 
> regards
> john

The Module API is a committed interface (including the ks interface).
The things compiled against the kernel data types (the modules
themselves) are not.

-Mike

-- 
Mike Shapiro, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. blogs.sun.com/mws/

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