It would also be nice to be able to update third-party modules (like those in
ports, x11, etc...) after a kernel recompile. Perhaps some way of setting these
up into /usr/local?
Peter Pentchev had the audacity to say:
>
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:51:31PM +0400, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote:
> >
> > I have idea about modules build/install process:
> >
> > May be it need to create some makefile variable like KERNEL_MODULES,
> > that can be defined in /etc/make.conf to limit list of modules
> > to build/install, it is not very good idea to spend a lot of
> > CPU time building modules, that never be used ?
>
> This was recently discussed on -arch, and was brought into -current
> by Warner Losch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in rev. 1.172 of src/sys/modules/Makefile
> from 2001/04/02 08:52:05; if there is a MODULES_OVERRIDE variable (defined
> either in /etc/make.conf or on the 'make' command line), it overrides
> the list of modules to build. This variable can - and probably should ;) -
> contain second-level module names, too - e.g. sound/pcm or syscons/daemon.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
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