[RFC] shipping kernels with default modules?

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Sun Jun 12 21:11:27 UTC 2011


On Jun 12, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

>>> 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 ;)
> 
> Sorry, I mean we do generally build ALL of them without INET or ALL of them with INET.  While some people sometimes do things like load em with INET and say cxgb without INET in the same system, in general this hasn't been widely tested.

Oh, I see. I'd say "if at all unless by accident" in that case;)

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