Re: More linker magic..

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 12:47:14 +0100

torvalds@transmeta.com said:
> Instead, any driver, filesystem or other entity can just register a
> kernel command line string and/or a initialization function that will
> be executed by using a magic section in the kernel linkage. So there
> is no need to touch a common file to add a new driver or a
> architecture-specific kernel command line entry.

Excellent. I was -><- this close to doing the same thing last week. Now can we
alter the build system to automatically call in new directory trees if they
have an appropriate Makefile and Config.in in them?

This way, we can distribute subsystems (drivers/fieldbus, drivers/pcmcia,
drivers/mtd, drivers/alsa, whatever) separately from the kernel, without
having to apply a patch to the main tree at all - just drop the new directory
in place.

Linus, if I do this cleanly, will you accept it?

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