Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760282AbXFWQmX (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:42:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753872AbXFWQmQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:42:16 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:47989 "EHLO mail.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753762AbXFWQmP (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:42:15 -0400 From: Torsten Duwe Organization: LST e.V. To: Grozdan Nikolov Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:42:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200706231417.16086.microchip@chello.be> <200706231812.02317.duwe@lst.de> <200706231819.43556.microchip@chello.be> In-Reply-To: <200706231819.43556.microchip@chello.be> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706231842.00798.duwe@lst.de> X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 559 Lines: 13 On Saturday 23 June 2007, you wrote: > hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x [...] Yes, but that was pretty cumbersome. You had to resolve the symbols in user space, using a hopefully matching /vmunix. Linux was first to feature an in-kernel linker and symbol table, IIRC. Torsten - 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/