from Polytropon <free...@edvax.de>: > Yes, /etc/src.conf uses WITHOUT_* on a per-module basis, so you need > to explicitely name the modules not to build.
> But you're right, there's only WITHOUT_USB (for not building the > USB-related parts), so going with kernel configuration would be > a good point to start -- the more precise you can define your > test setting and its variables, the better you can diagnose the > problem. > In /etc/make.conf, you could use MODULES_OVERRIDE to define the > set of modules you want (because only _those_ will then be > build) and keeping their functionality out of the kernel. In > this case, you have control over your test setting using the > modules. > The same files offers NO_MODULES=yes to avoid building modules > at all (use custom kernel instead). > If you decide to use WITHOUT_MODULES, you can define the set of > modules you want to avoid building, everything else will be > built. > > Would > > WITHOUT_MODULES= ulpt > > work better in /etc/src.conf than in /etc/make.conf ? > No, /etc/src.conf as (according to its manpage) a defined set of > variables that will be considered when building (or _not_ building) > certain modules. > > Besides the toxic (?) ulpt.ko, there are a lot of modules that > > would never be used on my hardware, and other modules that could > > be built in the kernel as non-modules (such as support for msdosfs > > and ext2fs, which I don't want to be without). > That's a good setting for using a custom kernel and not even > building the modules for the non-used functionalities. :-) I suppose modules save RAM by being loaded only when needed, but see the virtue of NO_MODULES=yes or MODULES_OVERRIDE in combination with putting everything needed in kernel config. Building WITHOUT_USB would cause a severe loss of functionality, USB sticks, USB hard drives, even USB mice and keyboards wouldn't work. from Jakub Lach <jakub_l...@mailplus.pl>: > Try with: > WITHOUT_MODULES= usb/ulpt I'll have to try that on my build/update of FreeBSD 9.0_STABLE i386 on USB stick. Thanks for the hint! This would be from the USB stick but with source base directory /STABLE1/usr/src (on hard drive). I had already built FreeBSD 9.0_STABLE i386 on the USB stick from FreeBSD 9.0_STABLE amd64, and was successful booting that USB stick. Sort of a dirty trick that you have to use usb/ulpt as opposed to ulpt, and a deficiency in the documentation. Now is there any way to prevent ulpt.ko from loading when a USB printer is connected? Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
