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OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules

Posted by Soulskill on from the loadable-kernel-modules-have-had-it-too-good-for-too-long dept.

jones_supa writes: The OpenBSD developers have decided to remove support for loadable kernel modules from the BSD distribution's next release. Several commits earlier this month stripped out the loadable kernel modules support. Phoronix's Michael Larabel has not yet found an official reason for the decision to drop support. He wagers that it is due to security or code quality/openness ideals.

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  1. Holy crap... by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    https://bitbucket.org/braindam...

    These are some of the worst and most uninformative commit messages I've ever seen...

    1) Why are there so many commits to achieve the same thing?
    2) Any commit message that is only a single line other than "fix typo" is a bad commit message

    Seriously, even some of the worst/most incompetent Android kangers have written better commit messages than the shitpile of LKM removals I'm seeing there.

    --
    retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
  2. Re:Phoronix, why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Presumably, AC meant Ted Unangst, the OpenBSD developer who authored the lkm removal commits.