From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 13:43:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F8E37B43E for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 14miVo-0005Ny-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:43:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:43:48 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <20010409164348.H14079@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200104091859.UAA06664@flip.tenbit.pl> <01040916401600.22539@merlin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01040916401600.22539@merlin>; from jl@burghcom.com on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:29:00PM -0400 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff Love probably said: > I did have a problem after a cvsup on 04/08/2001, as the 'cim' sound > kernel module would not compile. I eliminated the subdirectory listing in the > Makefile, and it simply did not attempt to compile the module. Why was the > kernel make compiling modules for devices I did not set in my config? I > suppose I'm either missing something, or I need to RTFM over again... Modules are, by definition, not included in the kernel. They are loaded and added to the monolithic kernel. You can load a module at any time and gain support for what that module does (assuming module form exists for that hardware) or you can compile it into the monolithic kernel. By default all modules are built, in case you want to use them. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message