kern/96346: [PATCH] disable build of modules that are already in kernel image

[Robert Millan]

The following reply was made to PR kern/96346; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>
To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/96346: [PATCH] disable build of modules that are already in	kernel image
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:27:12 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:18:16AM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
 > Robert Millan wrote:
 > >>Description:
 > >	Unless explicitly overriden, in a kernel build all modules are also 
 > >	built;
 > >	even those that are already part of the kernel image.  These modules 
 > >	are
 > >	useless since they can't be loaded.  My patch disables them.
 > 
 > You can build a new kernel with -DNO_MODULES and reinstall it. In this 
 > case you will lost modules, which you can have deleted from kernel.
 
 I don't understand.  Does -DNO_MODULES disable all modules, or just those that
 are already built in kernel?
 
 And if it disables only those in kernel, why isn't this enabled by default?
 
 Thanks,
 
 -- 
 Robert Millan