[src/trunk]: src/doc Add previous statement from core@ and add reference to e...

[pgoyette <pgoyette%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/6ba7caef31af
branches:  trunk
changeset: 355907:6ba7caef31af
user:      pgoyette <pgoyette%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Mon Aug 21 10:38:19 2017 +0000

description:
Add previous statement from core@ and add reference to earlier E-mail
discussion.

OK martin@

diffstat:

 doc/TODO.modules |  22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (36 lines):

diff -r 13863d9730ed -r 6ba7caef31af doc/TODO.modules
--- a/doc/TODO.modules  Mon Aug 21 09:00:21 2017 +0000
+++ b/doc/TODO.modules  Mon Aug 21 10:38:19 2017 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.12 2017/08/04 11:55:06 pgoyette Exp $ */
+/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.13 2017/08/21 10:38:19 pgoyette Exp $ */
 
 Some notes on the limitations of our current (as of 7.99.35) module
 subsystem.  This list was triggered by an Email exchange between
@@ -135,6 +135,26 @@
     loader time, an alternate value for the os-release portion of the
     default module path,  i.e. /stand/$MACHINE/$ALT-RELEASE/modules/
 
+    The following statement regarding this issue was previously issued
+    by the "core" group:
+
+    Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:02:56 +0200
+    From: <redacted>
+    To: <redacted>
+    Subject: Core statement on directory naming for kernel modules
+
+    The core group would also like to see the following changes in
+    the near future:
+
+       Implementation of the scheme described by Luke Mewburn in
+       <http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2009/05/10/msg009372.html>
+       to allow a kernel and its modules to be kept together.
+       Changes to config(1) to extend the existing notion of whether or not
+       an option is built-in to the kernel, to three states: built-in, not
+       built-in but loadable as a module, entirely excluded and not even
+       loadable as a module.
+
+
 15. The existing config(5) framework provides an excellent mechanism
     for managing the content of kernels.  Unfortunately, this mechanism
     does not apply for modules, and instead we need to manually manage