From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 21:20:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE5E37B401 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 21:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B48343FBD for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 21:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4S4KSgD084806; Wed, 28 May 2003 13:50:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Scott Long , Q Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:50:27 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <1054092793.1429.39.camel@boxster> <3ED4315F.8080709@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <3ED4315F.8080709@btc.adaptec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305281350.27953.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 04:20:45 -0000 On Wed, 28 May 2003 13:17, Scott Long wrote: > > I am thinking of ports like rtc, ltmdm or Vmware here.. where it is not > > uncommon that they require reinstalling after an upgrade. I have > > experienced kernel panics on several occasions from out of date vmware > > kernel modules. > > I'm really of the opinion that these ports should either live in the > sys/ tree, or that magic should be devised to make sure that they are > built along with the rest of the modules. Agreed :) I don't think it makes sense committing them into the sys tree, as it bloats everyones system and has potential licensing problems. Maybe the kernel build stuff can look in /usr/local/src/sys/modules for things to build or something.. -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5