Re: core's decision on modular kernels

2011-09-22 Thread Alan Barrett
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Martin S. Weber wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 07:55:38AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: - A port's MONOLITHIC kernel should include features that traditionally would have been present in a non-modular GENERIC kernel, and it may or may not include options MODULAR, at the

Re: core's decision on modular kernels

2011-09-22 Thread David Laight
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:09:58AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Martin S. Weber wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 07:55:38AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: - A port's MONOLITHIC kernel should include features that traditionally would have been present in a non-modular GENERIC

Re: dom0 lockdebug panic

2011-09-22 Thread Christoph Egger
On 09/22/11 02:00, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote: On 21.09.2011 17:47, Christoph Egger wrote: Hi, when I boot latest -current dom0 kernel I get this panic: Mutex error: lockdebug_barrier: spin lock held lock address : 0xa00023604790 type : spin initialized : 0x803276c0 shared holds :

Re: core's decision on modular kernels

2011-09-22 Thread David Young
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:53:53AM +0100, David Laight wrote: What is the difference between MONOLITHIC and MODULAR with 'built-in' modules? And wouldn't the latter be a better aim?? I think that by MODULAR with built-in modules, you mean a barebones kernel linked with some .kmod's? I would

wapbl module

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Goyette
It would appear that wapbl is only relevant for ffs file systems (and in particular, only for ffs filesystems with a V2 superblock format). Yet the current modularization of wapbl is not dependant on the ffs module. (wapbl's required-list is empty.) I realize that even though wapbl

Re: wapbl module

2011-09-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:24:48AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: I realize that even though wapbl registers itself as a module, it is not built as a loadable module - ie, it must be built-in. I intend to try to change this, so I would like to know if wapbl is ever intended for non-ffs file

Re: wapbl module

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Goyette
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:24:48AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: I realize that even though wapbl registers itself as a module, it is not built as a loadable module - ie, it must be built-in. I intend to try to change this, so I would like to know

Re: core's decision on modular kernels

2011-09-22 Thread David Laight
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:08:02AM -0500, David Young wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:53:53AM +0100, David Laight wrote: What is the difference between MONOLITHIC and MODULAR with 'built-in' modules? And wouldn't the latter be a better aim?? I think that by MODULAR with built-in modules,