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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:51:12 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "cvs-all@freebsd.org" <cvs-all@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r180431 - in head/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <20080711005112.GA60061@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <e7db6d980807101658o6e1da3b6j188b8eb7afd81079@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200807101635.m6AGZv7I090311@svn.freebsd.org> <e7db6d980807101035x67390f4cx7ff762e286bc67ed@mail.gmail.com> <20080710233721.GA55073@dragon.NUXI.org> <e7db6d980807101658o6e1da3b6j188b8eb7afd81079@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:58:05PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:35:35AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, David E. O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> > Author: obrien
> >> > Date: Thu Jul 10 16:35:57 2008
> >> > New Revision: 180431
> >> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/180431
> >> >
> >> > Log:
> >> >  Allow 'elf_file_t' to be used in a wider scope.
> >> >
> >> > Modified:
> >> >  head/sys/kern/link_elf.c
> >> >  head/sys/sys/link_elf.h
> >>
> >> This really was intentional.  elf_file_t was supposed to be opaque and
> >> changeable.  What do you need this for?
> >
> > Juniper needs to be able to call functions in the loadable modules before
> > the modules are actually linked into the kernel. This will be used to
> > call platform specific initialization functions early in the bootup
> > process.  Will also need un-static link_elf_preload_parse_symbols,
> > parse_dynamic, symbol_name, link_elf_lookup_symbol,
> > link_elf_symbol_values.
> 
> I think you should leave it in Juniper's tree for a tad longer:
> ../../../kern/link_elf_obj.c:88: error: redefinition of 'struct elf_file'
> ../../../kern/link_elf_obj.c:119: error: redefinition of typedef 'elf_file_t'
> ../../../sys/link_elf.h:133: error: previous declaration of
> 'elf_file_t' was here

What arch are you building on?  I built i386 LINT with this change.  So I
need some help reproducing the build break.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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