Re: git: 9fd0d9b16e93 - main - ktls: Remove the KERN_TLS option from the i386 and amd64 LINT-NOIP kernel configurations.

From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps_at_selasky.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:28:59 UTC
On 6/13/22 16:22, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 6/12/22 4:43 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 6/11/22 22:04, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>> On Sat, 11 Jun 2022, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>>
>>>> The branch main has been updated by hselasky:
>>>>
>>>> URL:
>>>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=9fd0d9b16e93ff2a3bd375a98763dca0150dcee0 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> commit 9fd0d9b16e93ff2a3bd375a98763dca0150dcee0
>>>> Author:     Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>
>>>> AuthorDate: 2022-06-11 19:29:42 +0000
>>>> Commit:     Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>
>>>> CommitDate: 2022-06-11 19:31:28 +0000
>>>>
>>>>     ktls: Remove the KERN_TLS option from the i386 and amd64 LINT-NOIP
>>>> kernel configurations.
>>>>
>>>>     Kernel TLS depends on INET or INET6 being enabled.
>>>
>>> That is only a short-term solution hiding the actual problem and will
>>> now propably never be fixed again like these device drivers which were
>>> on that list ofr ages...
>>
>> +1
>>
>> There is a plan to replace config at some point. I believe this is a
>> limitation of sys/conf/files, that it doesn't provide a good way to
>> handle conflicts. There are many ifdef KERN_TLS, so just skipping one
>> file for building won't help.
>>
>> https://hackmd.io/w1Tf8mmVQVuZok7-LNEhgw
> 
> What we often do though is just add in #ifdef's to make a given file a
> kind of stub.  In theory KTLS could work over UNIX domain sockets if
> someone wanted to do the work, and that would just entail adding the
> right #ifdef INET, etc. in this file.
> 

Is this something you plan to work on, or something you want done?

Feel free to revert my bandaid once a better solution is in place.

--HPS