Re: Proposal: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

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.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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