From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 25 10:21: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD7837B718 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2PIKs559083; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:20:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:20:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Maxime Henrion Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building only a specified list of kernel modules Message-ID: <20010325102053.E58992@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010324211140.C4304@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010324205005.D777@nebula.cybercable.fr> <20010325101657.A36335@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010325120046.F777@nebula.cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010325120046.F777@nebula.cybercable.fr>; from mux@qualys.com on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:00:46PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote: > My point is that more often we want to disable some modules and not > specify a list of modules which would be scary for beginners and would > lead to errors. I disagree. I think more people would want to specify the ones they want -- just like in the kernel config, you list what you want, not what you don't want (ok, you'll find a very,very few examples doing this). In my kernel I tell it I have a `xl' network card. I want to say the same for modules building, not that I don't have fxp, ed, fe, dc, etc.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message