Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:25:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Thanks, Core Team Message-ID: <19981228122531.C12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <12439.914809537@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:45:37PM -0800 References: <19981228112851.Y12346@freebie.lemis.com> <12439.914809537@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at 17:45:37 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 1. LKMs are gone. >> 2. This was decided by the core team. >> 3. Nobody else was informed. > > Actually, while some of the recent events came as much as a surprise > to core as anyone else, the transition from LKMs to KLD modules is not > and should not come as a surprise to anyone. We've been talking about > it for ages now in -current Sure, but that's not what I'm talking about. I've been gathering a lot of information about KLDs, and I've been meaning to move some time. But until this morning there was nothing to indicate that LKMs were going away in a hurry. It's interesting that recent events surprised you too, though. > and the only way you could possibly fail to be informed about this > transition would be if you had simply deleted every mail received > from -current for at least the last 3 months. This would be the same way that you could possibly fail to notice that I took a lively part in the discussions. That's not the point. Do *you* know how to get kld symbols into the kernel debugger? Peter gave me a pointer, but as they say, ``some assembly needed''. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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