DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-11
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Fixed (was Re: Linking panic)
The linking panic has been fixed. Basically what was happening was
that snd_cmi.ko has a dependancy on snd_pcm.ko. The dependancy caused
snd_pcm.ko to be linked up while the preload scan was working on
snd_cmi.ko. Then the preload scan continued onto snd_pcm.ko and
linked it up *AGAIN*. That is, it executed snd_pcm.ko's relocations
twice, leading to bad addresses.
The reason the loader got confused was because the module name is
'/modules/snd_pcm.ko' but the dependancy name is only 'snd_pcm'.
The linker already had hacks in it to add the '.ko' but it wasn't
doing anything about the /modules/ prefix, so the second attempt
to load /modules/snd_pcm.ko from the preload list failed to twig
to the fact that snd_pcm.ko had already been linked up using the
same image data.
I hope it's fixed!
Whew. The module code is a major mess. FreeBSD-5.x's code is a little
better but not by much. The whole thing needs to be rewritten.
-Matt
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