Re: VFS Module Autoloading

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Stephen M. Rumble wrote:

> 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.

        How much effort would it be to build them under non-conflicting
        filenames? Given the kernel infrastructure is present anyway...

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