Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:33:45 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LKM future (was Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers ) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.981228123030.17098C-100000@rac10.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199812281726.BAA66672@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> > I think it's important that if we ship the ability to load *old* a.out > LKM's on an a.out kernel, then noise needs to be made or there will be > messy accidents. > > What do folks think about making the LKM loading mechanism a kernel option > and having it default to off.. > I think this is a good idea. It will allow for a transition period from LKMs to KLDs, but, I think it should be in the GENERIC kernel, and should just be an option with the disable keyword. That way, users can choose whether or not they want to have this from install time, and they will know that it is an option. I guess that would require GENERIC to be a.out, but from what I have heard a.out is faster, and KLDs work in elf and a.out kernels. Somebody let me know if this is a good suggestion. Kenneth Culver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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