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Date:      Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:46:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to convert from LKMs to modules? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lkm/atapi .. )
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812271945190.20599-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981227164233.A21585@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, David O'Brien wrote:

> >   Log:
> >   Remove LKM's depricated by modules.
> 
> Ok, now that LKM's are gone, can someone please explain what this means
> to me on my next ``make world''?  I'm 3.0-CURRENT (very current) but
> still a.out.

It means /lkm won't be populated nor built.

> 
> Do modules even work for a.out?

I've never tried it, but all the a.out kernel linker code is there, so I'll say
"yes" almost definitely ;) Go ahead and try it, of course. If you kldstat and
modstat, I wouldn't be surprised if your system's kldstat had entries and
modstat didn't, already.

> 
> -- 
> -- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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