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Date:      Sat, 8 May 1999 17:18:26 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_linker.c kern_module.c src/sys/sys module.h 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905081717250.18703-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990508130518.BF7E11F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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On Sat, 8 May 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:

> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/kern             kern_linker.c kern_module.c 
> >     sys/sys              module.h 
> >   Log:
> >   First stages of a module dependency cleanup.
> 
> My plan is to have a module_set and probably dependency_set containing
> solely a list of pointers to modules in files or module dependency and
> version information.  These will be a LOT easier to get to from the loader
> than parsing the sysinit_set tables looking for module_register_init, and
> should be reasonably easy to handle dependency information.

Good idea. I wonder if it will be possible to write a userland tool which
dlopens the kld file and reads out the module information.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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