From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 29 15:50:27 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B181551B; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01821; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:50:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911292350.PAA01821@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Warner Losh , Dan Moschuk , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:02:46 PST." <199911292202.OAA09817@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:50:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > : > :I grow concerned about the number of kernel OPTIONS that we have. how > :many bytes are we saving here by making it an option? If it is less > :than 1k, don't bother. > : > :Warner > > We throw away the device market entirely if we do that. Not really. What's wrong at the moment is that the implementation of most options is poorly thought out; they're compile-time rather than link-time items. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message