From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 02:17:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEC737B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 02:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1177C43FBD for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 02:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4S9HkkA061209; Wed, 28 May 2003 03:17:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 03:17:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030528.031717.76562776.imp@bsdimp.com> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au From: "M. Warner Losh" 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> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: scott_long@btc.adaptec.com cc: q_dolan@yahoo.com.au cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:17:50 -0000 In message: <200305281840.46645.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> "Daniel O'Connor" 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