Re: OpenBSD and FS-Support (compiling kernel without support..)

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd@bsws.de>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:24:10AM -0400, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> kernel modules let me:
> - not load things I don't need (union, ext2fs, several dozen other
>   things) - to let me run a smaller kernel

bebefit close to zero.

> - load modules which might have GPL or other non-BSD licensed code
>   (which a reiserfs modules would likely have).

which you don't want anyway.

> - load and unload modules while debugging, rather than 
>   code, compile a kernel, boot, hope it works, debug.
>   RATHER: modload module, try new calls, hopefully modunload.

hope, yeah, hope.

also:

-lets attackers insert code into kernel space in the worst case
-inserts ugly and dangerous function pointer lists

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