Re: kern/45235: GENERIC can not have options MODULAR on sane archs

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/45235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/45235: GENERIC can not have options MODULAR on sane archs
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:53:24 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:26:10PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
 >      Has this been tested?  sys/kern/kern_module.c:module_listener_cb()
 > explicitly allows autoloaded modules.  Of course, there is enough stuff
 > going on in kauth that something else might be disallowing it.
 
 Yes - try to remove INSECURE from sparc64's MODULAR kernel and boot a
 system with kernfs and ptyfs in /etc/fstab. Anything else would be realy,
 realy frightening IMHO.
 
 Martin