From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 12 7: 0:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6140D37B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA48526; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:00:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200009121400.KAA48526@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Latest kernel/module restructuring In-Reply-To: <96988.968766166@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> from Sheldon Hearn at "Sep 12, 2000 3:42:46 pm" To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:00:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: dmmiller@cvzoom.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > To remedy this, I suggest we have an option in /etc/defaults/make.conf > > to _not_ wipe out any modules in /boot/kernel (except kernel.ko of > > course) if modules are not built with kernel. > This sounds like a very bad idea, since it encourages folks to use > modules which are not synchronized with the running kernel. Some of us rebuild kernels without supping. I, for one, play with all sorts of kernel options to see what they do. When 5.0-stable comes out, a lot of people would like this. Having to rebuild the modules when I want to add USER_LDT to my kernel would be bad. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message