Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Avi Kivity]

Hannu Savolainen wrote:

> Or why not to include an embedded version of gcc/binutils in the kernel
> LKM interface. In this way all drivers can only be distributed in source 
> code which effectively makes all forms of binary only drivers impossible. 
> After that all the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL nonsense can be removed and a proper 
> DDI layer can be implemented for Linux. This makes it possible to ship 
> "outside the kernel build" drivers without a risk of major 
> incompatibility problems in the next kernel version. No, I'm not 100% 
> serious but just 50%.
>
>  
char mydriver[] = { 0x90, 0xf3, 0xa4, ... };
struct { unsigned long offset; void* symbol; } fixups[] = { { 79, 
schedule }, ... };

module_init() { link(mydriver, fixups); ((void (*)())mydriver)(); }

:)

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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