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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:54:23 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        chen@Ipsilon.COM (Jerry Chen)
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org, jre@Ipsilon.COM
Subject:   Re: the symbol tabel of a loadable driver is not loaded
Message-ID:  <199603130754.IAA10956@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <314623F0.12A7@ipsilon.com> from "Jerry Chen" at Mar 12, 96 05:25:04 pm

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As Jerry Chen wrote:

> In FreeBSD 2.0.5, modload does not load the symbol table
> into the kernel.

Even if it would: it were of no use for you.  Since the driver is
loaded to a dynamic location, the symbol table as created by ld(1)
won't match the reality.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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