Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:12:30 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: RFC: moving sysutils/fusefs-kmod to base system Message-ID: <200809021912.38401.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <g9it70$bm7$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <48BB4FEB.1050906@gmail.com> <g9it70$bm7$1@ger.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 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. <soapbox> It would be nice if ports could put their kernel module source somewhere so that a buildkernel would build it. This has several advantages - You don't upgrade the port unless you want to when building a kernel. - If the kernel API changes you find out because the port doesn't compile then you can make an informed decision. - You don't need a working network connection to rebuild your kernel. </soapbox> I did make some strawman patches for this but my make fu is weak so it wasn't very reliable :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIvQqO5ZPcIHs/zowRAhWUAJ0YeZjIju3Xu7VuRzZjQFSd+lFCngCeJeEA 2BRaYDyfbOD12hlDDYfDo7k= =bKTF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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