Stubs.c(4)                                                Stubs.c(4)


       NAME
             Stubs.c - stubs for kernel module symbols

       SYNOPSIS
             Stubs.c

       DESCRIPTION
             One of the Installable Driver/Tunable Parameters kernel
             configuration files, a Stubs.c file is an optional C language
             source file that can be installed and compiled into the system
             as a ``place holder'' for a kernel module that will not be
             installed in the system.  Its purpose is to enable the kernel
             to resolve references to the absent module's symbols.

             When the Stubs.c component of a module's Driver Software
             Package (DSP) is installed, idinstall(1M) stores the module's
             Stubs.c file information in /etc/conf/pack.d/module-
             name/stubs.c where module-name is the name of the module being
             installed.  Package scripts should never access stubs.c files
             directly; only the idinstall command should be used.

             A module's Stubs.c file contains function name and variable
             definition stubs for symbols defined in the module that can be
             referenced by other kernel modules being configured into the
             system.  At compile time, the definitions in the Stubs.c file
             give the kernel the ability to resolve references made to the
             absent module's symbols.

       REFERENCES
             idinstall(1M)


















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