Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:30:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:30:18 -0500 Received: from deimos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:52426 "EHLO deimos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:30:17 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15897.56108.201340.229554@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:38:20 -0800 To: Rusty Russell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rth@twiddle.net, bjornw@axis.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, ralf@gnu.org, mkp@mkp.net, willy@debian.org, anton@samba.org, gniibe@m17n.org, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, Jeff Dike Subject: Re: Userspace Test Framework for module loader porting In-Reply-To: <20030106022803.902F82C0E2@lists.samba.org> References: <20030106022803.902F82C0E2@lists.samba.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 18 >>>>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:27:02 +1100, Rusty Russell said: Rusty> BTW, the change to use shared objects for modules is going to Rusty> be a 2.7 thing: after 10 architectures, MIPS toolchain issues Rusty> made it non-trivial. So the current stuff is what is going Rusty> to be there for 2.6, so no point waiting 8) What about all the problems that Richard Henderson pointed out with the original in-kernel module loader? Were those solved? My gut feeling is that we really want shared objects for kernel modules on ia64 (and probably alpha?). --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/