[wplug-bsd] Patching a driver

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Poyner, Brandon wrote:

> Assuming your kernel config is named GENERIC, you should be able to
> 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC -DNOCLEAN' while in /usr/src and use
> the old objective files.  I don't see an option in /usr/src/Makefile for
> building the modules only, but my system is pretty old.  It appears to
> work for me, I was able to build a new ntfs.ko and kldload it, of course
> I don't have a ntfs filesystem to try it out on.

-DNOCLEAN, in combination with MODULES_OVERRIDE, worked.  Fantastic! 
Thanks a ton. Tomorrow I will probably put in Tom's fix instead.

My only remaining question: given that I do want to notify the maintainer, 
how do I figure out who that is? Should I maybe send it to 
freebsd-fs at freebsd.org?

Thanks, as always, for all your help,
-Brandon