Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:25:10 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buggy gif in 4.4-STABLE (2 November 2001) Message-ID: <20011227092510.C27331@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3C260C45.895B543C@grosbein.pp.ru>; from eugen@grosbein.pp.ru on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:54:29PM %2B0700 References: <20011221143743.A68938@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20011221111514.A30629@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C260C45.895B543C@grosbein.pp.ru>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:54:29PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > 1. It is impossible to kldload if_gif.ko when kernel was compiled without IPv6. > > > > If you're building a custom kernel you should compile in your devices. > > This is what I generally do. But often it's impossible to predict > what will be nessesary later and it's undesirable to include all possible > features into production kernel :) > My kernel runs with securelevel=2 and integration of gif was a bit painful. > Aren't kernel modules designed for similar situation? Absolutly not. You can't load modules at securelevel>0. The fact that the modules really only work with generic is a bug, but it's not going to be fixed in stable, so you'll just have to deal with it. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8K1l2XY6L6fI4GtQRAhC0AJ96T/P6uAHveUtNlmROKZEe3zld3QCdH2KC tYCNe/x2vzF4vPeWAVE8D+E= =dG2+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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