svn commit: r216746 - head/sys/conf

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Dec 28 17:34:10 UTC 2010


On 12/27/2010 19:09, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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.

which is why I'd like to have its name changed: it is confusing this way...

Warner


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