Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761209AbXFWQyb (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:54:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761342AbXFWQyK (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:54:10 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:64607 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760987AbXFWQyI (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:54:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sD5SpH9CcA4ugS1gKXi95c3C01akg4O65oMk9dhwt2zf3cCJshOIehrZBRY2urlhaVPr++7L1gRpzpvrk7JWQ9Ds/qgAeMACxGgg+pIc7B1AH9fKYiEuWcsbJB3feX2Dn9moK9/0+7VPLEf1ef5oHHbYYfvF5ghjGg9s8niKUjw= Message-ID: <7579f7fb0706230954n20430e8bq4c229f72e1c32bcf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:54:08 -0700 From: "Matthew Jacob" To: "Torsten Duwe" Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? Cc: "Grozdan Nikolov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200706231842.00798.duwe@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200706231417.16086.microchip@chello.be> <200706231812.02317.duwe@lst.de> <200706231819.43556.microchip@chello.be> <200706231842.00798.duwe@lst.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 16 > > > 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. > > Err, uh, no- I believe that Solaris development for this at the very least predates even 0.59 linux- I think it was Joe Provino at Sun ECD near Boston who gave us a working prototype in early 1989. - 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/