Re: port-i386/38769: MKMODULAR=yes should be the default on i386

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/38769; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: port-i386/38769: MKMODULAR=yes should be the default on i386
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 15:51:25 -0400

 Andrew Doran wrote:
 >  On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:40:00PM +0000, jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >  
 >  > >Description:
 >  >   New style modules cannot be loaded with modload as MKMODULAR
 >  >   defaults to 'no' on all platforms.
 >  
 >  How about flipping the switch after 5.0 is branched?
 
 What about installing the new tools as kmod{load,unload,stat} and 
 allowing the two to co-exist?
 
 Cheers,
 Jared