Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:51:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: do we need full kernel sources to compile loadable modules ? Message-ID: <3C85680B.776B76CD@mindspring.com> References: <20020305134932.A79697@iguana.icir.org> <20020305230738.C13979@phoenix.dmnshq.net> <20020305145406.A37648@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:07:38PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > There is probably similar problems with newbus. We have previously > > talked about making vnode_if.src be handled similar to syscalls.master > > - ie, generate files from it, then commit those files. > > I think this would be a mistake. We should strive to not commit the > generated form of syscalls.master. We've seen just too often people > forget to do this. Yes, it's pretty evil. AIX had a different way, in which the linker could read a system call table that had name/entry point # pairs, and you could add to this table on the fly, if you wanted the linker to know about new system calls; it would just generate the stub functions automatically. This is evil, too, but the fact that you have to rebuild libc to add a system call stub is pretty much as painful as it gets. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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