From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 12:16:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8843137B424 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 31880 invoked by uid 0); 10 Apr 2001 19:16:45 -0000 Received: from p3ee20a9e.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.10.158) by mail.gmx.net (mp026-rz3) with SMTP; 10 Apr 2001 19:16:45 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22614 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:51:52 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:51:52 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building code for non configured features (was: Releases) Message-ID: <20010410185152.X20830@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200104091859.UAA06664@flip.tenbit.pl> <01040916401600.22539@merlin> <20010409164348.H14079@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010409164348.H14079@pir.net>; from pir@pir.net on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:43:48PM -0400 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 16:43 -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > Jeff Love probably said: > > > > Why was the kernel make compiling modules for devices I did > > not set in my config? > > Modules are, by definition, not included in the kernel. They > are loaded and added to the monolithic kernel. > > [ ... ] By default all modules are built, in case you want to > use them. That's where I love the Linux notion of configuring a feature as either enabled, disabled, or modularized. Did I miss some obvious reason for not completely disabling functionality? Is the current choice of making features and drivers either builtin or a module to not confuse users by the possibility to disable too many of them? Is it since compiling is cheap these days and opinions about "I don't need these" might change over time? Looking at the low end machines I have around here I sometimes would like to completely disable some features and exclude them from compilation and installation. And I'm absolutely positive about some of them to never become necessary for this setup. :) virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message