On Wed, 28 May 2003 13:17, Scott Long wrote: > > I am thinking of ports like rtc, ltmdm or Vmware here.. where it is not > > uncommon that they require reinstalling after an upgrade. I have > > experienced kernel panics on several occasions from out of date vmware > > kernel modules. > > I'm really of the opinion that these ports should either live in the > sys/ tree, or that magic should be devised to make sure that they are > built along with the rest of the modules. Agreed :) I don't think it makes sense committing them into the sys tree, as it bloats everyones system and has potential licensing problems. Maybe the kernel build stuff can look in /usr/local/src/sys/modules for things to build or something.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5Received on Tue May 27 2003 - 19:20:45 UTC
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