On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:50:22 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> if you don't have -fPIC (or at least -fpic), how do you get them to
> be loadable?  You have to be able to change the addresses, right?
> Or am I missing something obvious?

You need to relocate them.  LKMs (ab)use ld(1) for that.  We need a
real in-kernel linker to avoid the LKM -> /usr dependency b/c of ld.

SY, Uwe
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