Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:10:06 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu> To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers Message-ID: <19981228091006.A22233@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199812280853.QAA63951@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 04:53:10PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812280011020.23283-100000@feral-gw> <199812280853.QAA63951@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> 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". > 4: The LKM loading mechanism has been within an inch of being broken beyond > repair a number of times over the last few months and it's sheer luck that > the mechanism has remained working. And this also. Once understading the pain of maintaining LKM's at this point, one can understand and would probably do the same. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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