[RFC] shipping kernels with default modules?

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Jun 12, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

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> On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:36 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
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>> On 11 June 2011 17:21, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>> Is there any reason we aren't doing this at the moment? Eg by having a
>>> default loader modules list populated from the kernel config file?
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>> The immediate problem - how does one get the config parameters from
>> the kernel configuration file to appear in the per-module build setup?
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> For options, we've been doing that for years.  Config generates the opt_foo.h files, and they are picked up by the modules.
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>> Or, in a more general sense, how do you do per-module configuration?
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> Generally, the modules follow the global settings, since we've never tested building some network drivers with INET and some without, for example.

What do you mean?  I have been doing that for 2 or is it 3 years; you can even see which ones depend on it in sys/conf/makeLINT.mk these days ;)


> Or did you have something else in mind when you asked?

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