Re: Proposal: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules

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

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 08:00:53PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20170910185148.GA7149%antioche.eu.org@localhost>,
> Manuel Bouyer  <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Can't we add a sysctl that controls the behavior and have autoload
> of the compat modules off by default?

and make the default conditional on MODULAR ?

But still, it looks like a (ugly) hack rather than nice feature.

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