Re: Userspace Test Framework for module loader porting

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:27:02 +1100, Rusty Russell <[e-mail]> said:

  Rusty> BTW, the change to use shared objects for modules is going to
  Rusty> be a 2.7 thing: after 10 architectures, MIPS toolchain issues
  Rusty> made it non-trivial.  So the current stuff is what is going
  Rusty> to be there for 2.6, so no point waiting 8)

What about all the problems that Richard Henderson pointed out with
the original in-kernel module loader?  Were those solved?  My gut
feeling is that we really want shared objects for kernel modules on
ia64 (and probably alpha?).

	--david