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RE: Modules and the kernel



> I *KNOW* you use the actual .o binaries, but I think (or at least
*thought*)
> that there are some hooks inside the kernel for calling the external
object
> file, i.e. some table linking the major/minor numbers of the device to the
> name of the module, if not something worse.

	AFAIK the only modules which need such stuff are the sound modules
in
the 2.0.xx kernel series.  I think I read somewhere that the 2.1.xxx series
have better modularization, allowing for the use of sound as modules, even
binary ones.

	I could be wrong, but I hope not...  :)


Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Amdocs Brasil Ltda