Re: Cleanup of module code

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 07:39:33 EST


torvalds@transmeta.com said:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> > If we ever want the option of compiling everything as a module and
> > using an intelligent linker to construct the kernel from assorted
> > objects (Genesis?) then that embedded knowledge has to go. Every
> > module must be compiled with __module_kernel_version and the linker
> > must decide how to handle the symbols.

> Well, THAT is probably years into the future.

I don't know - I was intending to start on it as soon as you accept the
non-recursive Makefile patches which are floating about.

We're not that far off already.

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dwmw2

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