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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:30:30 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r216746 - head/sys/conf
Message-ID:  <4D1A1EB6.5040009@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D194551.7000004@freebsd.org>
References:  <201012272352.oBRNqeEb040247@svn.freebsd.org> <20101228015905.GA81514@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4D194551.7000004@freebsd.org>

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On 12/27/2010 19:02, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 12/27/10 17:59, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:52:40PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
>>>    Make it possible to specify WITHOUT_MODULES in a kernel config file.
>> Can you explain how this differs from
>> makeoptions	NO_MODULES
>> which has been able to do for years?
> NO_MODULES means what it says: No modules.
>
> WITHOUT_MODULES="foo bar baz" means "go ahead and build modules except for foo,
> bar, and baz".
Most of the other uses of the WITHOUT_xxx in the tree means omit feature 
xxx entirely...  I usually hate to nit-pick names, but in this case I 
think "OMIT_MODULES" would be a better name and less confusing for the 
other uses of WITHOUT_FOO in the tree...

Warner



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