docs/114144: [patch] add info about the category kld to the porters handbook

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Sat Jun 30 01:40:03 UTC 2007


>Number:         114144
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] add info about the category kld to the porters handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 30 01:40:03 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Edwin Groothuis
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD k7.mavetju 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007 root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386


>Description:

Add info about the kld category to the porters handbook.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.844
diff -u -r1.844 book.sgml
--- book.sgml	28 Jun 2007 16:17:17 -0000	1.844
+++ book.sgml	30 Jun 2007 01:33:58 -0000
@@ -2059,6 +2059,13 @@
 	  </listitem>
 
 	  <listitem>
+	    <para>Ports which install loadable kernel modules need to have 
+	      the virtual category <filename>kld</filename> in their
+	      <makevar>CATEGORIES</makevar> line.
+	      </para>
+	  </listitem>
+
+	  <listitem>
 	    <para><filename>misc</filename>
 		  should not appear with any other non-virtual category.
 		  If you have <literal>misc</literal> with something else in

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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