On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Dean Anderson wrote:
What are we even talking about at this point? You're describing a method
of handling kernel interfaces that I don't recognize at all.
Really? What did we do before there were dynamic modules? I recall
having to relink the kernel with vendor-provided objects back in the old
days. I suppose dynamic loading has become like cellphones and
On some platforms (HPUX, Digital UNIX) that was true. On others there was
this hack called dkload that basically was loadable modules for systems
which don't actually support loadable kernel modules natively.
I think you missed the future tense in my statement above. What happens
when Linux, etc removes dynamic system calls?
We use the workaround code we have for that eventuality.
Then you will be able to
dynamically load drivers, but you will have to statically link system
calls and reboot like in the old days before dynamic loading. Getting a
syscall installed on a system will be a slight pain, but may worth it in
at least some cases.
No doubt, unfortunately some of the people who want it won't actually be
able to static link code in due to policy.
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