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Date:      Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:01:14 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Add MAXCPU as a kernel config option and quality discussion on this
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On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote:
> Yes, having a default value for sizing cpuset_t does look harmful if a
> kld module tries to use them. =A0What is currently in the tree will
> silently fail by successfully compiling for kld modules that try to
> use anything affected by that.

Could we implicitly add something like MODULE_DEPEND(maxcpu, MAXCPU,
MAXCPU, MAXCPU); to every kld module so that we reject modules
compiled with the wrong MAXCPU value?  Maybe add it to DECLARE_MODULE
or something.



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