Re: question about modules rewrite

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
5 Jan 1997 16:15:25 +0100

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In linux.dev.kernel, article <CMM-RU.1.5.852093748.tdyas@xenophanes.rutgers.edu>,
Tom Dyas <tdyas@xenophanes.rutgers.edu> writes:
> Now that the kernel modules implementation has been rewritten for the
> better and the interface changed somewhat, is there any reason to have
> both sys_create_module() and sys_init_module()?
>
Yes.

You have to get a kernel address for the module (create_module). Then you
need to relocate the module, load the code into the kernel, and initialize
it (init_module).

If you want to use just one syscall then you need to have the relocating
code within the kernel. This is stupid, IMHO.

-- Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. -- Thor Heyerdahl.

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