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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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