Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:23:59 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: moving sysutils/fusefs-kmod to base system Message-ID: <g9it70$bm7$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <48BB4FEB.1050906@gmail.com> References: <48BB4FEB.1050906@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Unless I understand how the kernel does stuff there is no penalty for > having unused modules (except the size of the kernel that needs to be > loaded). Keeping in mind that unless I am not reading stuff corectly > fusefs-kmod is the only FS related module that is not in the base > system. Since any fundamental changes in the generic FS API seems to > break fusefs-kmod, and cause some very nasty effects that are almost > impossible to trace to fusefs-kmod (machine freezes so no output or core > dump) it seems to make sense to move it to the base system (after all > we already do this with third party FS code like x/zfs) by moving it we > force it to always compile instead of breaking This can be done by documenting usage of make.conf PORTS_MODULES knob. Just a little notice in ports would suffice, not anybody out there compiles a new kernel daily. > (of course there can be > other issues but as the FS API is updated fusefs-kmod is also updated to > use the new API) -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.
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