From owner-cvs-src Thu Mar 6 12:32:59 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CD537B401; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B3943FA3; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:32:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h26KW6921153; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:32:08 -0300 Message-ID: <3E67B046.3040003@tcoip.com.br> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:32:06 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030214 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , "David O'Brien" , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_linker.c src/sys/boot/common help.common loader.8 module.c References: <200303032253.h23MrZ4F038178@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030304005242.GA38799@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030304092528.GA76504@sunbay.com> <20030304134603.GL48337@starjuice.net> In-Reply-To: <20030304134603.GL48337@starjuice.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2003/03/04 11:25), Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > >>As I said (and many others have mentioned), having /modules >>by default can only cause a panic -- 4.x modules would kill >>5.0. Those who want it, can easily edit /boot/loader.conf. > > > I thought the whole point of continuing to load modules from /modules in > 5.x was to give host adminsitrators a sensible place to put 3rd party > modules, so that they wouldn't be blown away by the installkernel and > reinstallkernel targets. > > I understand why you want /modules to go away, but the onus is on you to > replace it with something, because it had a purpose. > > So, what are you offering in its place? :-) Mmmmm, /boot/modules works for as long as the original change to /boot/kernel was made. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net It is easier to run down a hill than up one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message