Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:01:00 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Change to kernel+modules build approach Message-ID: <XFMail.20030814110100.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030814100248.GB88037@sunbay.com>
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On 14-Aug-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:10:19AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: >> Luoqi Chen wrote: > [...] >> >On the other hand, all modules should create all the opt_*.h files >> >it needs when built individually. Add opt_ddb.h to nullfs's Makefile >> >should fix the breakage. >> > >> Our kernel build system isn't set up to handle passing config options >> to modules. Various solutions to this have been proposed, but nothing >> has appeared yet. In 5.x, we document that modules will not work with >> PAE. >> > How does the below look? This is basically a more generic implementation > of Luoqi's idea, but for -CURRENT: I would prefer something far more radical that would involve moving all the module metadata to sys/conf (i.e. removing sys/modules) and building all the modules based on a single kernel config file. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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