On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Would it be reasonable for someone to look at making protocol lkm
> 	which can be loaded but not unloaded (as a first step), then work
> 	on making them unloadable?

I think so. Basically that'd be changing all the netisr routines into one
main one, and having it call entries in a jump table.

>From some of the stuff I removed from the netatalk code, it seems FreeBSD
can already do this (build up NETISR handlers). There was a
NETISR_SET(NETISR_ATALK, atintr) which got removed. Maybe impliment what
it di, and that'll be a start.

Thinking about it, it might not be so bad to unload a protocol. If it has
no sockets assigned to it, then it can safely be removed, I think. All the
routes & ifaddrs will need zapping, but that should be no big deal.

Take care,

Bill