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Anyone know of a link to the rationale?

• justincormack 12y ago
  I think it was only being used to load policies into pf, and that was no longer needed as the useful policies were all included. That may have been a comment from the latest episode of bsdnow.tv, or a discussion I had recently I forget which sorry...
• boardstretcher 12y ago
  Not a link, but I can tell you that one of the philosphies OpenBSD dev's enjoy is 'trim useless code for maintainability and security.' LKM hasn't been worked on, improved on, or maintained in any significant way, so... it went away. There won't be any fanfare made about it officially, because the dev group didn't seem to care about it anymore. Anything un-needed or considered bloat in OpenBSD goes this route eventually,. not with a bang but a whimper. edit: Having looked at the article, it seems a bit sensationalized by Phoronix. Unfortunately the OpenBSD maintainers didn't care as much as this writer at Phoronix seems to have done.
• imanaccount247 12y ago
  Can't link to it because it is such a non-issue that nobody would even mention it. They just removed some dead code. OpenBSD has not used the kernel modules system in 15+ years. This is only "news" because people unfamiliar with openbsd assume it is like linux and must use modules. It is not and does not.