From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 4 12:13:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA21023 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@sfmax4-150.ppp.wenet.net [206.169.224.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21007 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA00347; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:06:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:06:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Terry Lambert cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some thoughts and ideas, and quirks In-Reply-To: <199708041636.JAA04158@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > That brings me to another thought or 5 ;) . What about an rc.modules? > > Why not a /kern/modules instead, and use opendir() to iterate them, > and demand load them when necessary? I don't see a reason for rc.* > based loading if demand-loading works... That sounds like a great idea. Whatever works. > > However the uid > > filesystem thing does need to be statically compiled as does ext2, both > > typos in the lint, and man pages, etc. > > No. Those are typos in the uid and ext2 FS code, not typos in LINT > or the man pages. Don't confuse bugs with policy. Well bugs, typos or whatever, they still prevent them from being made into lkms. However I still don't see an ext2fs lkm or mount_ext2fs program (unless it's hiding from me), and mount -t ext2fs did need the kernel directive so afaic that's not really a typo. - alex