Re: removing link sets (Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/puffs/rump_smbfs)

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:08:16AM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > PS: It's really amazing how rump can cope with link sets in the DSO
> > world at all.  One can condescentingly call it a hack, but link sets
> > are not rump's fault.  People are most welcome to fix this ugliness
> > properly by helping to get rid of link sets in the kernel.
>
> getting rid of link sets?  I thought they were added specifically
> to fix the need to have a bunch of ifdefs in code to initialize
> bits of code.  What do you replace them with?

Yes, I came to regret the addition of them.  They solved a problem at  
one time, but are not really a great solution.  I'd like to see them  
go, replaced with real constructor methods for each subsystem.

> eric

-- thorpej