Subject: Re: Any resolution for LKM issues?
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/17/2001 15:50:32
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:47:36AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:
> In some email I received from Ignatios Souvatzis, sie wrote:
> >=20
> > One problem though: this only works for base kernel calls... inter-LKM =
calls
> > will still potentially need long branches.
>=20
> At present it is only possible for one-way dependencies to exist for LKM
> calls.  When you do that, you need to supply a complete new symbol table,
> not that for the kernel, so I can't see why the inter-LKM calls would be
> treated in a special way by the loader.

They're at a potentially long distance from each other.
	-is

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