Re: CVS commit: src/sys/conf

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> In article <m42jep$fu6$1%ger.gmane.org@localhost>,
> Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
>>In article <CADbF7edbi1NG5O2LZqoh42zoAMvdEYoMF3bLyr=Pynu0PZx9=Q%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
>>
>>Can you please explain what you are trying to do and what are your goals?
>>I am not sure if I agree that the list of link_sets is "well known". If
>>you ask anyone to enumerate them they will probably resort to nm the
>>kernel...
>
> Ok, I see the plan in config now, but I'd still prefer that the link
> sets were discovered rather than hard-coded like it has been so far.
> What do others think?

I can't answer everything soon but one reason coming to mind:

I want to hide all "link_set_*" sections except "link_set_modules" in
*.kmod.  AFAIK linker script doesn't have a syntax to do ``merge
everything except this pattern''.  Thus I need to know all link-set
sections explicitly.