From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 29 0:28:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2F037B422; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8T7RlQ95456; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:27:47 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200009290727.e8T7RlQ95456@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile In-Reply-To: <20000928132844.B90273@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Sep 28, 2000 01:28:45 pm" To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:27:47 +0200 (SAT) Cc: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org (Makoto MATSUSHITA), stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:10:10PM +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > But wait, wait a minute... > > > > If you wanna say "make release", you already know about that an > > exciting, cool, and misterious world is there. Why not adding > > vn_load="YES" to your loader.conf and reboot ? > > 1. No one has given an argument about what is so wrong about explicitly > running kldload(8). And before someone says "just remember to run it > before you type `make release'", then I'll argue why even have a > release Makefile when one could just type all the commands in by hand. Hmmm. I have the vn device in the kernel that I use to build releases. Now (at least on -current where I have just tried it) I will end up with 2 vn's in the kernel. Won't that cause harm? ------------------------------ beast:/home/cvsup # kldload vn.ko beast:/home/cvsup # kldstat -v Id Refs Address Size Name 1 4 0xc0100000 20c00c kernel Contains modules: Id Name 1 cam 2 pci/ahc 3 miibus/amphy 4 miibus/brgphy 5 miibus/dcphy 6 miibus/xlphy 7 miibus/mlphy 8 miibus/nsphy 9 miibus/pnphy 10 miibus/pnaphy 11 miibus/rlphy 12 miibus/tlphy 13 miibus/ukphy 14 miibus/xmphy 15 nulldev 16 ppbus/lpt 17 ppc/ppbus 18 ppbus/ppi 19 random 20 pci/sym 21 vn 22 isab/isa 23 nexus/isa 24 isa/isahint 25 isa/pnp 26 aout 27 elf 28 shell 29 rootbus 30 procfs 31 if_loop 32 if_ppp 33 if_tun 34 pci/if_dc 35 dc/miibus 36 pci/if_de 37 pci/if_fxp 38 pci/if_xl 39 xl/miibus 40 pcib/pci 41 pci/pcib 42 pci/isab 43 pci/ign 44 ufs 45 mfs 46 scterm-sc 47 scrndr-vga 48 isa/pnpbios 49 mem 50 pci/piix 51 root/nexus 52 isa/sysresource 53 isa/attimer 54 isa/atpic 55 isa/atdma 56 nexus/npx 57 isa/npxisa 58 nexus/pcib 59 pci/hostb 60 isa/pcibus_pnp 61 atkbdc/atkbd 62 isa/atkbdc 63 isa/fdc 64 fdc/fd 65 isa/ppc 66 isa/sio 67 pci/sio 68 isa/sc 69 isa/vga 2 1 0xc0cb0000 3000 daemon_saver.ko Contains modules: Id Name 70 daemon_saver 3 1 0xc0ea3000 3000 vn.ko Contains modules: Id Name beast:/home/cvsup # ------------------------------ John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message