Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Mon Aug 21 10:38:19 UTC 2017
Modified Files:
src/doc: TODO.modules
Log Message:
Add previous statement from core@ and add reference to earlier E-mail
discussion.
OK martin@
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diff -u src/doc/TODO.modules:1.12 src/doc/TODO.modules:1.13
--- src/doc/TODO.modules:1.12 Fri Aug 4 11:55:06 2017
+++ src/doc/TODO.modules Mon Aug 21 10:38:19 2017
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.12 2017/08/04 11:55:06 pgoyette Exp $ */
+/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.13 2017/08/21 10:38:19 pgoyette Exp $ */
Some notes on the limitations of our current (as of 7.99.35) module
subsystem. This list was triggered by an Email exchange between
@@ -135,6 +135,26 @@ christos and pgoyette.
loader time, an alternate value for the os-release portion of the
default module path, i.e. /stand/$MACHINE/$ALT-RELEASE/modules/
+ The following statement regarding this issue was previously issued
+ by the "core" group:
+
+ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:02:56 +0200
+ From: <redacted>
+ To: <redacted>
+ Subject: Core statement on directory naming for kernel modules
+
+ The core group would also like to see the following changes in
+ the near future:
+
+ Implementation of the scheme described by Luke Mewburn in
+ <http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2009/05/10/msg009372.html>
+ to allow a kernel and its modules to be kept together.
+ Changes to config(1) to extend the existing notion of whether or not
+ an option is built-in to the kernel, to three states: built-in, not
+ built-in but loadable as a module, entirely excluded and not even
+ loadable as a module.
+
+
15. The existing config(5) framework provides an excellent mechanism
for managing the content of kernels. Unfortunately, this mechanism
does not apply for modules, and instead we need to manually manage
