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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
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Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) 
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not at all!  i love being able to dynamically reconfigure my kernel in 
solaris without having to recompile things.  VSTa takes an even more 
extreme path on this and makes pretty much everything a library in userland.


b3n

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Chris Csanady wrote:

> 
> >welcome to solaris.
> 
> Are you implying that this is a *bad* thing?
> 
> >On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Chris Csanady wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> >The important point is that there is *no difference* between the dynamic
> >> >and statically loaded version of a driver.  I can go into a
> >> >/sys/compile/FOO directory and construct loadable modules from the same
> >> >object files.
> >> 
> >> How about a statically loaded version of the kernel?  I mean, will it now
> >> be nothing more than an aggregate of some modules?  It would be nice if
> >> all there were were modules, and to make yourself a kernel, you just
> >> had to stick them together..
> >> 
> >> --Chris Csanady
> >> 
> >> >--
> >> >Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> >> >Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
> >> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 
>