Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:25:01 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org> Cc: "Nikolay Y. Orlyuk" <nikolay@asu.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Build options for kernel modules Message-ID: <20030321162501.GC1174@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030321161658.GA56375@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20030321153217.GA53518@comp.chem.msu.su> <20030321153907.GQ76182@asu.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> <20030321161658.GA56375@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On Fri Mar 21, 2003 at 07:16:58PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:39:07PM +0200, Nikolay Y. Orlyuk wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:32:17PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Excuse my stupid question, but I seem to have no time to do the
> > > investigation by myself right now so I'd be glad to receive a brief
> > > answer from someone who has the information.
> > >
> > > As far as I can see, kernel modules should be built along with the
> > > kernel for the only reason of keeping their mutual interfaces in
> > > sync, has a source file defining such an interface changed. Is
> > > there currently no way to go further and affect a kernel module's
> > > built-in features with kernel config file options, besides modifying
> > > makefiles in /sys/modules?
> > I think this isn't so. I have been already tried to compile some modules
> > without compiling kernel and this trye has successful result, but without
> > change options.
> > I think modules must be build with same or less imports and same or more export to be correct
> > for loading.
>
> Yeah, it's all right to compile modules w/o the kernel, but that's
> not exactly what I was asking about. My question was whether "option
> FOO" lines from a kernel configuration file could influence modules.
I'm pretty sure they do. A great example is IPFIREWALL_* options: if
they don't influence the module, I think we have a problem. ;)
A.
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