Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:12:30 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: RFC: moving sysutils/fusefs-kmod to base system Message-ID: <200809021912.38401.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <g9it70$bm7$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <48BB4FEB.1050906@gmail.com> <g9it70$bm7$1@ger.gmane.org>
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--nextPart5285365.xYJcLFmnYY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > Unless I understand how the kernel does stuff there is no penalty > > for having unused modules (except the size of the kernel that needs > > to be loaded). Keeping in mind that unless I am not reading stuff > > corectly fusefs-kmod is the only FS related module that is not in > > the base system. Since any fundamental changes in the generic FS > > API seems to break fusefs-kmod, and cause some very nasty effects > > that are almost impossible to trace to fusefs-kmod (machine freezes > > so no output or core dump) it seems to make sense to move it to=20 > > the base system (after all we already do this with third party FS > > code like x/zfs) by moving it we force it to always compile > > instead of breaking > > This can be done by documenting usage of make.conf PORTS_MODULES > knob. Just a little notice in ports would suffice, not anybody out > there compiles a new kernel daily. <soapbox> It would be nice if ports could put their kernel module source somewhere=20 so that a buildkernel would build it. This has several advantages =2D You don't upgrade the port unless you want to when building a kernel. =2D If the kernel API changes you find out because the port doesn't=20 compile then you can make an informed decision. =2D You don't need a working network connection to rebuild your kernel. </soapbox> I did make some strawman patches for this but my make fu is weak so it=20 wasn't very reliable :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5285365.xYJcLFmnYY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIvQqO5ZPcIHs/zowRAhWUAJ0YeZjIju3Xu7VuRzZjQFSd+lFCngCeJeEA 2BRaYDyfbOD12hlDDYfDo7k= =bKTF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5285365.xYJcLFmnYY--
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