Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 01:26:46 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: LKM future (was Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers ) Message-ID: <199812281726.BAA66672@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:10:06 PST." <19981228091006.A22233@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote: > > 3: KLD's have been installed and used in preference to LKM's for quite a > > while now. Many people are using KLD's instead of LKM's *already* without > > being aware of it - a.out kernels included. > > If the commit message had said "hey guys check out kldstat and modstat -- > you'll be surprised that you are already using it, so don't worry". Oh, as David pointed out to me offline, /etc/rc.i386 explicitly modloads the screen savers. I can't do much about that folks, sorry. You'll need to update /etc/rc.i386 from /usr/src/etc/etc.i386/rc.i386. I would like to put a warning in modload that explictly prints a message to stderr saying that LKM's are depreciated and have been replaced by the kldload etc mechanism. 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.. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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