Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:24:10 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? Message-ID: <200305281524.10145.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030527.225207.101586684.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <C90CF9CA-9040-11D7-941E-0003937E39E0@mac.com> <200305281147.53271.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030527.225207.101586684.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Wed, 28 May 2003 14:22, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <200305281147.53271.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> > > "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes: > : The only downside is that there are no hooks into the build process so > : you have to be VERY careful when you update your kernel, or you get > : panics :( > > This is true. I'd thought that MODULES_OVERRIDE would help, but ports > builds and kernel builds are different enough to make this not easy to > do. > > Wanna test a patch? Add a 'makeoptions PORTS_MODULES=comms/ltmdm' to > your config file and apply the following patch. Lemme know how well > (or poorly) it works. There's likely some hidden assumptions that > make it appear to work for me. I don't see how it can work properly.. You need 'FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=' in the install target. I don't think how the patch is structured is sensible though :) 1) If the port is updated between builds you end up with two version of the port installed. 2) You can't control where the module gets put - arguably this isn't a calamity, but I think it makes more sense for the modules to end up in /boot/modules, or some analog to it that is in $PREFIX. IMHO a standard should be set WRT item 2 so future ports writers know what the proper way to do it is :) I guess the problem with mandating somewhere in $PREFIX is that the loader can't load it, so that's no good. I guess the only choice left is /boot/modules. Any comments? -- 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
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