Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:29:35 -0500 | Subject | Re: modutils, the next generation | From | (Dale R. Worley) |
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In article <9701141042.ZM8090@cellar.rz.uni-ulm.de> Martin Buck <Martin-2.Buck@student.uni-ulm.de> writes: On Jan 13, 15:16, Greg Alexander wrote: > There isn't really anything all that special about them. [...] > So far as anyone really cares, they're .o's. :)
Of course they're .o's, but being able to load them into a running Linux kernel seems to be a very special property, IMHO.
I think the crux of the matter is that one really does care that only proper modules get loaded into the kernel -- the result of loading a .o that *wasn't* a module would be ugly indeed. Better would be if modules were fully version-locked in some way, so that there was a high probability that if a module was incompatible with a particular kernel, it would not load at all. And, ideally, if the kernel were changed but still compatible with a particular module, the module could be loaded unchanged. (Unfortunately, I don't understand the module system well enough to know to what degree MODVERSIONS takes care of this.)
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