Re: VFS Module Autoloading

["Stephen M. Rumble" <rumble%stanford.edu@localhost>]

On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:32 AM, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Stephen M. Rumble wrote:
>
> > The new-style modload, modunload and modstat tools all work.  
> > They're just not built by default - you need to set MKMODULAR, in  
> > which case they mostly replace the LKM versions. However, the  
> > modules themselves are built and installed and the kernel contains  
> > support for them. Consequently, -current (and what's to be 5.0)  
> > there's no way to load, unload or query these modules by default as  
> > you'll be invoking the LKM tools. Yet at the same time, the kernel  
> > will suck them in automatically for file systems.
>
>         It may be a dumb question, but what is the downside of
>         setting MKMODULAR by default?


The two sets of userland tools are mutually exclusive right now. I  
don't think that's a problem since the intent is to replace LKMs  
eventually, but my impression was that we didn't want to throw the  
switch for 5.0.

Steve