Re: Weak x86 aliases

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Dec 28, 2018, at 9:50 AM, Mathew, Cherry G. <cherry%zyx.in@localhost> wrote:
> 
> That seems like a dependency burden on people developing new features. I can't tell if modload is the only way to get NVMM to run. If it is, then ok. If not, then there's the option of provisionally turning it off until we fix the underlying problem.

Uh, no :-)  This would have been exactly the same situation if you had changed some other symbol to be a weak-alias.  NVMM was using an exported symbol, no different from how a module might use, say, kmem_zalloc(), and you changed the semantics of that symbol in a way that broke a module using it.

-- thorpej