[wplug-bsd] Patching a driver

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:39:12 -0400
"Poyner, Brandon" <bpoyner at ccac.edu> wrote:

> > Well, I can confirm that 'ls -l' displays 0 hard links for 
> > all files and 
> > directories on the mounted filesystem. That's not right, right?
> 
> It's not right for a unix filesystem.  Since this is NTFS I couldn't
> say.  It would be interesting to see how Linux handles this.
> 
> > Looking in the handbook, it seems that I can specify a list 
> > of modules to 
> > build with the MODULES_OVERRIDE directive in make.conf... is 
> > there a way 
> > (also, is it responsible) to not build the kernel itself?  I think my 
> > /usr/obj tree is still fully populated, and I would love to 
> > be able to 
> > build just this module.
> 
> 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.

cd sys/dev/${MODULE} && make && make install
should work.

> 
> > It doesn't seem like a fix to a non-critical, low-priority 
> > bug in what 
> > really amounts to a legacy driver will be forthcoming.  
> > Furthermore, from 
> > the bug report it appears the maintaner is aware of the fix 
> > and probably 
> > not interested in applying it since it is, after all, a hack (simply 
> > report '1' link instead of '0' so that Samba doesn't break).  
> > It's still 
> > not the correct number of links, and so, not a proper fix.
> 
> It's really your call there.  The maintainer won't likely patch the
> module if people aren't requesting it.  You could also go the other
> direction and make your own patch for samba and not the kernel.  
> 
> Brandon Poyner
> Network Engineer III
> CCAC - College Office
> 412-237-3086
> 
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Tom Rhodes