Cannot mount linprocfs by unresolving sysvs?m symbols

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Friday 06 April 2007 01:43 pm, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > Index: linprocfs.c
> > =================================================================
> >== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/compat/linprocfs/linprocfs.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.108
> > diff -u -r1.108 linprocfs.c
> > --- linprocfs.c	30 Mar 2007 17:56:44 -0000	1.108
> > +++ linprocfs.c	6 Apr 2007 17:33:05 -0000
> > @@ -1238,3 +1238,5 @@
> >  PSEUDOFS(linprocfs, 1);
> >  MODULE_DEPEND(linprocfs, linux, 1, 1, 1);
> >  MODULE_DEPEND(linprocfs, procfs, 1, 1, 1);
> > +MODULE_DEPEND(linprocfs, sysvmsg, 1, 1, 1);
> > +MODULE_DEPEND(linprocfs, sysvsem, 1, 1, 1);
>
> I dont like this, I would prefer some dynamic determining
> whether sysv symbols are present and if not just fill
> in "safe" values.

You know I have used sysctlbyname before but it was shot down by 
des. :-(

> is there a way to do this nicely?

Probably we can improve kernel linker to do better job. ;-)  I mean, 
load all dependencies before look up symbols.

Jung-uk Kim