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Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Jun 16,  3:50pm, erh@nimenees.com (Eric Haszlakiewicz) wrote:
> | 	I vaguely remember thinking that the solution to a lot of the symbol
> | collisions, at least when you're talking about common shared function that
> | two LKMs might need, is to make the LKM more fine grained.  So, if you've
> | got the linux emul lkm, and a freebsd emul lkm, and they both use emul_find=
> | (),
> | rather than having emul_find() included in linux_lkm.o and freebsd_lkm.o,=
> | =20
> | you have a emul_lkm.o that gets loaded first.  Of course, doing so only
> | really becomes feasable when you can do something as simple as a
> | 	echo "options COMPAT_LINUX" | config -b . - && make
> | to build any piece of the kernel.
> 
> If you make them more fine-grained, then you can use the elf library dependency
> mechanism to load the modules...

It sounds very neat, but 'make them more fine-grained' is easier said 
than done, I presume. Is there already a plan to achieve that, or should 
the thread starter compile such a plan?

Cheers,
-- 
         Thomas E. Spanjaard
         tgen@netphreax.net

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