svn commit: r216746 - head/sys/conf

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Tue Dec 28 02:09:00 UTC 2010


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 06:02:57PM -0800, 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".
> 

Thanks.  The distincion wasn't clear from the commit log.
I read it as "Build a kernel WITHOUT building MODULES",
which is what NO_MODULES does.

-- 
Steve


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