In article <20170910185148.ga7...@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 08:46:52PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote: >> Le 10/09/2017 à 19:59, Manuel Bouyer a écrit : >> > There's something I don't understand in this thread: what is the point >> > of having the code in kernel if you still have to use modload to make it >> > availble ? Why not comment it out in kernel and have users modload it >> > if they want to ? >> >> said earlier, but on a different list, see >> >> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes-d/2017/08/04/msg009366.html > >OK. So you want this because (some?) compat modules can't be dynamically >loaded. This problem should be fixed, instead of of worked around in >such a ugly way.
Can't we add a sysctl that controls the behavior and have autoload of the compat modules off by default? christos
