From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 25 10:24:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEEFC37B71D for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 5071 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Mar 2001 18:23:34 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:23:34 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: David O'Brien Cc: Maxime Henrion , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building only a specified list of kernel modules Message-ID: <20010325212334.D3241@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Maxime Henrion , arch@FreeBSD.org References: <20010324211140.C4304@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010324205005.D777@nebula.cybercable.fr> <20010325101657.A36335@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010325120046.F777@nebula.cybercable.fr> <20010325102053.E58992@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010325102053.E58992@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:20:53AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:20:53AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > My point is that more often we want to disable some modules and not > > specify a list of modules which would be scary for beginners and would > > lead to errors. > > I disagree. I think more people would want to specify the ones they want > -- just like in the kernel config, you list what you want, not what you > don't want (ok, you'll find a very,very few examples doing this). > > In my kernel I tell it I have a `xl' network card. I want to say the > same for modules building, not that I don't have fxp, ed, fe, dc, etc.... I think so too :) However, Maxime also has another point - keeping a sample MODULES_LIST in /etc/defaults.make.conf means that every time a new module is added, someone has to remember to add it there, too. This is not too hard a task, but well ;) More people should voice their opinions and arguments on that, I think.. G'luck, Peter -- The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message