Messages in this thread | | | From | (really ) | Date | 19 Apr 1996 23:38:19 +0400 | Subject | Re: Steve's crashing 1.3 machine, cured? |
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Jamie Lokier (jamie@rebellion.co.UK) wrote:
: As a special luxury, how about locating hardware probes in another : segment (using compiler and linker directives) so they can be unloaded : after use?
I tried it, and successfully. Unfortunately, it requires marking all initialization procedures/variables with __attribute__(....) and my patches are pretty difficult to support even without these marks. If you saw them, you can imagine what I feel when Linus reformats any part of source tree... BTW, it appeared that initializing code is pretty small part of devices.
: d. does not require ksyms.c
: Does this mean that the run-time kernel image includes all of its : symbols at run-time?
It does not!
I just generate aksyms.def from the currently installed modules and from a default set (aksyms-std.def, it is empty now) It is easy, because my modules contain all necessary information about symbol relations and dependencies. So that, initial module tree is consistent automatically. If you made a standalone module that requires a symbol currently not exported and does not want to recompile kernel, you just load "bridge" module made from System.map or vmlinux.
Alexey Kuznetsov.
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