Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 03:17:17 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? Message-ID: <20030528.031717.76562776.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200305281840.46645.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200305281447.02322.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030528.030900.55833611.imp@bsdimp.com> <200305281840.46645.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
: On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:39, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > : Maybe the kernel build stuff can look in /usr/local/src/sys/modules
: > : > : for things to build or something..
: > : >
: > : > YUCK!
: > :
: > : *WHY?*
: > :
: > : I have asked this before BTW, and I haven't been told why it sucks.
: >
: > Because there are other, more elegant ways of dealing with these
: > things. I don't like /usr/local/src anything, which was the main
: > complaint.
:
: If there are more elegant solutions I would like to know what they are.
:
: I agree it isn't a great solution, but I can't see what is better.
The patch I started on is one way. If all you want to do is build
additional modules, something akin to MODULES_OVERRIDE that worked
with absolute paths wouldn't be too horrible. I think it would just
be a matter of setting MAKEOBJDIRPREIX a little better than we do now,
but it is late, and my brain could be wrong.
Warner
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