Re: Kernel modules doco?

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:03:09AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article 
> <5018ADB2-2CF7-4E04-9B18-201A33BFC8D1%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>,
> Lloyd Parkes  <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost> wrote:
> >Thanks Christos.
> >
> >So I guess I should PR the fact that 5.0 tries very to use kmod even  
> >though it isn't available. All the modules are built, mount_get_vfsops 
> >() calls module_autoload() whenever it sees a need to, and at least  
> >one kmod warning messages gets spit out from time to time.
> >
> >It's a bit mean showing 5.0 users the new kmod system and then  
> >telling them that they can't have it.
> >
> 
> I am not sure if it is feasible/safe to pullup all the changes that
> are required to make the new kmod system to work on 5.0. Andy probably
> can answer this quicker than me.

There's a security fix that needs to go in, which I will handle. It's also
possible that 5.0 got the overly chatty error messages which may also need
to be fixed.

Thanks,
Andrew