svn commit: r335916 - head/sys/conf

[Eugene Grosbein]

06.07.2018 6:59, John Baldwin wrote:

>> I'm not sure I understand the topic quite right, but please do not drop
>> MODULES_WITH_WORLD support at it allows us to quickly rebuild the kernel
>> in case of slight changes of its config file not changing ABI and/or
>> similar source changes without HUGE modules compilation overhead.
> 
> This would not drop it, but it would mean that you can't necessarily kldload
> /boot/kernel.GENERIC/foo.ko while running some other kernel.

And what's profit of such restriction? There were several cases
when I was forced to extract somemodule.ko from FreeBSD distribution files
and upload it to some customized installation such as FreeNAS or NAS4Free
or another one running custom kernel and having stripped-down module set out-of-the-box.
For example, ichwd.ko or something like that. And I was just happy I could do that and
that just work. Why should we break it?