Re: DKMS support

[Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> > FYI, DKMS supports Debian GNU/kFreeBSD now.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >  dkms (2.2.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
> >  .
> >   * [6b2d392] Run depmod command only in Linux.
> >     Thanks to Robert Millan (Closes: #631657)
>
> The patch omits some context that is probably important to what is actually 
> going on, so I do not speak with full confidence.  It seems that depmod is 
> roughly similar to freebsd's kldxref(8).  The latter is not mentioned in the 
> changelog and does not appear in the patch -- does kFreeBSD circumvent the 
> generation of hints for the kernel linker, or is this step taken elsewhere 
> (in the individual module build routine, say), or should it be added in DKMS?

Upon further reflection, this mostly boils down to whether Policy requires 
that kFreeBSD kernel modules build with bsd.kmod.mk.  Though there may be 
edge cases around module deinstallation or elsewhere.

-Ben