Re: Removal of compat-FreeBSD

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On February 13, 2015 9:36:13 PM EST, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:
>	Hello.  The point I was trying to make is that if you break
>COMPAT_FREEBSD by taking it out of the GENERIC kernel, you lose the
>ability to manage the
>twa(4) or twe(4) cards through the OS unless you recompile a kernel
>with
>COMPAT_FREEBSD back in.  (Having an auto-loading module seems like it
>misses the point of enhancing security to me.).  New users

Sure, so perhaps the module shouldn't autoload, but that doesn't mean you need to recompile the kernel, just explicitly load the module (as root) if you need it.
Taking it out of GENERIC doesn't make it impossible to load the module.

Eric