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Invert the meaning of -s, from "don't load symbols" to "load symbols". 

Document that this is expensive (and why) in the BUGS section.
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ross 1999-04-30 18:32:01 +00:00
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: modload.8,v 1.10 1999/03/10 05:14:51 erh Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: modload.8,v 1.11 1999/04/30 18:32:01 ross Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd June 7, 1993
.Dd April 30, 1999
.Dt MODLOAD 8
.Os NetBSD 0.8a
.Sh NAME
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ itself.
.It Fl v
Print comments about the loading process.
.It Fl s
Suppress loading of the symbol table.
Load the symbol table.
.It Fl A Ar kernel
Specify the file that is passed to the linker
to resolve module references to external symbols.
@ -112,9 +112,15 @@ command was designed to be similar in functionality
to the corresponding command in
.Tn "SunOS 4.1.3" .
.Sh AUTHOR
.Bl -tag
Terrence R. Lambert, terry@cs.weber.edu
.El
.Sh BUGS
.Bl -bullet
.It
The loadable device driver framework can
only reserve either a character or block device entry, not both.
.It
Loading the symbol table is expensive in terms of space:
it presently duplicates all the kernel symbols for each lkm loaded
with
.Fl s .
.El

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/* $NetBSD: modload.c,v 1.23 1999/04/23 17:47:02 abs Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: modload.c,v 1.24 1999/04/30 18:32:01 ross Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 1993 Terrence R. Lambert.
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
#ifndef lint
__RCSID("$NetBSD: modload.c,v 1.23 1999/04/23 17:47:02 abs Exp $");
__RCSID("$NetBSD: modload.c,v 1.24 1999/04/30 18:32:01 ross Exp $");
#endif /* not lint */
#include <sys/param.h>
@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ int verify_entry __P((char *, char *));
int debug = 0;
int verbose = 0;
int symtab = 1;
int symtab = 0;
int
linkcmd(kernel, entry, outfile, address, object)
@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ main(argc, argv)
out = optarg;
break; /* output file */
case 's':
symtab = 0;
symtab = 1;
break;
case '?':
usage();