Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:46:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp, mike@smith.net.au, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, nate@mt.sri.com, nathan@rtfm.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO Integration? Message-ID: <199812162246.PAA04524@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199812160811.IAA37602@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> from "Brian Somers" at Dec 16, 98 08:11:36 am
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> [.....] > > Try to name one ting that you could do with "config" that you could > > not do with a sufficiently dynamic kernel loadable module framework. > [.....] > > Is it possible to load ``n'' pseudo-devices (without teaching the > driver to be dynamic enough to do it itself) ? My kernel config says > ``pseudo-device tun 300''.... Not without teaching the driver to do it itself, no. That's basically what a coning device driver is, is a driver that has been taught. I think the correct approach is to use a clone device, but of course if you put the constraint in that I can't use clone devices, then yeah, static limits require static configuration. You could get non-static fairly quickly by putting Julian's devfs and slice code back in, but of course that'd be pretty politically incorrect (regardless of technical merit). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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