Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:33:36 +0200 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Modular ipv4 inquiries... |
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:34PM -0600, Alexander Chacon wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to know a few things about making the ipv4 code modular. I've been > working on a school assignment that requires implementing tunneling, but first > ipv4 must be modularized... it needs to be done using kernel 2.4.20 > > .... What should I consider for a start, and how hard can it be > in the end?
When I did it way back when once, it took me 1 or 2 days to do basic modularization, where the IPv4 is installable once, and will stay in forever (like IPv6 is now). To make it uninstallable took me another week.
> I've experienced a lot of undefined symbol references which are linked > to core kernel files!, isn't there a way to access these symbols from > the module into the kernel while executing?
Yes. You need to export them from basic core.
> Thanks in advance > Alexander Chacon
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