James Carlson wrote:
> Mike Shapiro writes:
>
>> As per the original question, it's a good idea when building a misc module
>> to use a mapfile and symbol reduction to avoid unwanted dependencies.
>>
>
> This should probably make its way into $SRC/uts/README, I think.
>
It wold be nice if the hackery required to make ctfmerge happy was a bit
automatic, as well.
I think my module, if I wind up splitting into separate files, maybe the
first to walk down this road other than krtld. (I did it for the
unbundled SCA 1000 software I built on Solaris 8 years ago, as well.
But then I didn't have to worry about ctfmerge.)
>
>> At some point a useful thing for us to do would be to extend this concept
>> to the core kernel -- much pain over the years could have been saved if
>> we scope-reduced the kernel down to a set of valid interfaces to call
>> (e.g. DDI, VFS, and other semi-well-defined subsystems).
>>
>
> Yes; I think that'd be *great*.
>
Sounds like a really, really good idea to me.
Heck, I'd be happy if we just did it for the IP modules! There are some
ugly bits in there that a lot of people "depend on" that shouldn't.
-- Garrett
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