What if we declare death to LKM screen savers and remove them from the source tree? After all KLD screen savers are working well.
Kazu >As of a few minutes ago, I committed some changes that: >1: make the LKM code use the common VFS and syscall registration routines >2: make an 'options LKM' option. >3: build an 'lkm' loadable kld module > >This means that if you are still using an a.out kernel and are loading >LKM's specifically, you either need to add 'options LKM' to your config, >or do a 'kldload lkm' to load the /dev/lkm support routines. [...] >However, the thought has occurred on many occasions that it might be an >idea to make a stand on this and remove the LKM build support. It will >clean up a few interfaces. If this doesn't happen for 3.1, it's definately >on my agenda for after the branch. Converting the common LKM's to kld >modules is pretty easy, and even the ones with custom load/unload code are >not too hard. I'd be interested to get a feeling for whether this should >be done for 3.1 or later. (Remember, OSS have a KLD version now for 3.0). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
