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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.

2 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. To Dice: Please fire SoulSkill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reason: he trolls more than he posts.

    kthxbye

  2. In other news. by Truekaiser · · Score: 0, Troll

    OpenBSD market share drops as it no longer supports third party hardware. Former OpenBSD users migrate FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD where they can load the drivers for their raid cards and other server hardware that is not yet in the BSD mainline kernel.

    This decision is almost as dumb as the unquestioned adoption of SystemD in linux..