On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:20:43PM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:

> >Perhaps it would be more productive if I ask you how you see this
> >working. In particular, what changes are you going to make to the
> >relevant parts of the kernel Makefiles?
> 
> There will be no changes in the kernel makefiles in terms of building
> the kernel.  Packages will be delivered to a repo rather than
> being created on disk....

This has nothing to do with package delivery methods (or dim-sum
patching).

> If the type IDs in genunix change, I assume its elfhash changes.
> Likewise, if the dependent modules change, their elfhashes will
> change as well.

As long as you're aware that this will happen to *every* ON module on
essentially every genunix and ip change, then fine. Obviously, your
updates will be correspondingly larger, but I suppose the aggregate
package sizes aren't significant enough for the pain.

Another downside worth mentioning is that ON modules will retain their
special status - no other kernel module is allowed to use CTF
uniquification, with the performance overhead that implies.

regards
john
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