From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 5 16:51:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BCA37B402; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:51:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0228.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.228] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16iPem-0005NT-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:51:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3C85680B.776B76CD@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:51:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Eivind Eklund , Luigi Rizzo , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: do we need full kernel sources to compile loadable modules ? References: <20020305134932.A79697@iguana.icir.org> <20020305230738.C13979@phoenix.dmnshq.net> <20020305145406.A37648@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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