From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 2 12:59:28 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08F537B4CF; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:59:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA14791; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:59:22 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/linux Makefile linux.8 linux.sh Message-ID: <20001102125922.E14424@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200011021348.FAA60414@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011021348.FAA60414@freefall.freebsd.org>; from sheldonh@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:48:54AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:48:54AM -0800, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Modified files: > sys/modules/linux Makefile > Removed files: > sys/modules/linux linux.8 linux.sh > Log: > Retire linux(8). Using shell scripts to load kernel loadable modules is > out of fashion. This particular case, unlike joy(8) and friends which > are just plain silly, did more than just load a kernel loadable module. > However, /etc/rc and the linux_base port were adjusted a while back to > cope with the absence of this script. Actually, I may just move the script to usr.sbin. When MFC'ing the MI/MD split of the Linux compat support, I was panicing kernels. So I turned off loading the KLD in rc.conf, and manually loaded it using ``linux'' (to get the Linux ldconfig run) when I was ready to test a new version of the KLD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message