Re: Proposal: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2017, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 11:15:04AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > It could be a sysctl listing by name the emulations available and another
> > listing the emulations currently enabled.
> >
> >
> > emul.available=linux,linux_32,svr4,svr4_32
> > emul.autoload=linux,linux_32
>
> I would not mind excluding emulations from autoload in general, with no
> switch at all.

We currently have a single autoload-enabling sysctl.  Perhaps we should 
instead have several?  One for device drivers (called from specfs), 
another for compat/emulations, etc.?


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