Re: Userspace Test Framework for module loader porting

David Mosberger
2003-01-06T19:30:18Z

>>>>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:27:02 +1100, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 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