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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:49:13 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/modules/md Makefile src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.c
Message-ID:  <20040810164913.GP991@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040810154348.GA19937@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote this message on Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 18:43 +0300:
> Another thing I'm worried about is that it's typical for a "device foo"
> to have the corresponding foo.ko module, and now this is no longer the
> case.  I think many would still prefer that the file be named md.ko,
> while clearly the inside module should be named "g_md".

There is already other modules that break this conventions (and bde
doesn't like the sound and geom subdirs in modules) such as sound,
network interfaces, and all the other geom's...

Then there is the screen savers which use a suffix instead of the
prefix.. :)

I'm not familar with kldxref, but it seems like it would make sense
for it to grow logic so that if you try to load a module that the
"kernel" knows about, but doesn't match the name, it would return
that...

That still wouldn't fix the breakage, since md is now no longer md,
but g_md...  Should we fix the naming in the kernel config?

-- 
  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."



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