Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:03:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) Message-ID: <199704301903.MAA02534@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704301546.BAA30982@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 1, 97 01:46:12 am
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> >I agree on the comment re linker sets. I would like to see these vanish > >for a simple reason: try sometime to build a really minimal kernel and it > >will fail at link time since there are missing linker sets. ouch. > > > >By minimal, i mean minus any file systems for example. And yes, I do have > >a use for this. > > You can consider this a feature. If something fails to link due to a > reference to a nonexistent linker set, then the something isn't properly > ifdefed for minimality. Heh. Death is a feature. It means humans aren't properly designed. I'd have to say that like death, this is a "feature' I could live without. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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