Of course they're .o's, but being able to load them into a running Linux
kernel seems to be a very special property, IMHO.
I think the crux of the matter is that one really does care that only
proper modules get loaded into the kernel -- the result of loading a
.o that *wasn't* a module would be ugly indeed. Better would be if
modules were fully version-locked in some way, so that there was a
high probability that if a module was incompatible with a particular
kernel, it would not load at all. And, ideally, if the kernel were
changed but still compatible with a particular module, the module
could be loaded unchanged. (Unfortunately, I don't understand the
module system well enough to know to what degree MODVERSIONS takes
care of this.)
Dale
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