From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 01:22:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A105A16A4CF for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 01:22:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFDF43D6B for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 01:22:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 75so131576rnl for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.92.15 with SMTP id p15mr32864rnb; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:22:28 +0800 From: Jiawei Ye To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200408021838.44384.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200408011507.i71F7MVc000907@lorne.arm.org> <200408011825.i71IPZgG018406@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200408021838.44384.jhb@FreeBSD.org> cc: dlt@mebtel.net cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Mark Murray Subject: Re: /dev/null doesn't get created X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:22:31 -0000 On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:38:44 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > It's a preference thing. I pretty much never use modules myself (things > compiled into the kernel are more optimized, mutex and atomic ops are inlined > rather than function calls for example) unless doing development on a device > driver in which case I leave the device driver as a single module. > > -- > John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org Quite a number of modules are loaded on-the-fly, is there any particular reason for io/null/mem not to be? Jiawei Ye