Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Christos Zoulas 
> <christos%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > Module Name:    src
> > Committed By:   christos
> > Date:           Sun Dec 28 03:21:02 UTC 2008
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >        src/sys/kern: kern_module.c
> >
> > Log Message:
> > - Don't autounload modules loaded during boot. In my case, ffs got unloaded
> >  because my cdrom takes too long to initialize.
> is this the right thing to do ? it seems more a workaround than a fix
> of the obviously buggy auto-unload code.

Preloaded modules are special in that they are required to bootstrap the 
system. If they are unloaded before the kernel can mount the root 
filesystem there is no hope if loading them again.

Cheers,
Jared