Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:39:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] shipping kernels with default modules? Message-ID: <118F0BE0-2F1A-4106-8050-F6FE1321E106@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <B2BF0A26-1819-49C2-8331-3F00712AF523@lists.zabbadoz.net> References: <BANLkTin2AwKRT7N6HWqBctJcT72_mR=Otg@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTinJP%2BmSiacOO03r8zAY_79ABDy_EQ@mail.gmail.com> <BDC0C06C-3152-49AF-A0F7-86A05AF14288@bsdimp.com> <B2BF0A26-1819-49C2-8331-3F00712AF523@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: >=20 > On Jun 12, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Warner Losh wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:36 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>=20 >>> On 11 June 2011 17:21, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>=20 >>>> Is there any reason we aren't doing this at the moment? Eg by = having a >>>> default loader modules list populated from the kernel config file? >>>=20 >>> The immediate problem - how does one get the config parameters from >>> the kernel configuration file to appear in the per-module build = setup? >>=20 >> For options, we've been doing that for years. Config generates the = opt_foo.h files, and they are picked up by the modules. >>=20 >>> Or, in a more general sense, how do you do per-module configuration? >>=20 >> Generally, the modules follow the global settings, since we've never = tested building some network drivers with INET and some without, for = example. >=20 > What do you mean? I have been doing that for 2 or is it 3 years; you = can even see which ones depend on it in sys/conf/makeLINT.mk these days = ;) Sorry, I mean we do generally build ALL of them without INET or ALL of = them with INET. While some people sometimes do things like load em with = INET and say cxgb without INET in the same system, in general this = hasn't been widely tested. Warner=
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