Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:26:25 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu, peter@netplex.com.au Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LKM future (was Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers ) Message-ID: <199812281826.FAA24056@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>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to stderr saying that LKM's are depreciated and have been replaced by the 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. I was thinking of leaving the lkm tree in place to install noise generators (either rm the old LKMs or install LKMs that print an update message). >What do folks think about making the LKM loading mechanism a kernel option >and having it default to off.. OK. It's already an option, but defaults to on, and has unifdefed hooks in at least the syscall table. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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