Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 18:27:51 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new Kernel Module System Message-ID: <199703310227.SAA06086@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:45:31 MST." <199703302045.NAA08427@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> 1.2. Lifecycle of an LKM >> >> The user initiates a module load (either by mounting a filesystem >> or by explicitly calling modload(8)). > >This is a hack brought on because the loader is not in kernel space. >This was a policy decision by the FreeBSD core team. It was? I've always advocated for the linker to be in the kernel and I don't recall any other core member disagreeing. The reality from my point of view is that this is simply the way we got the code from you. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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