Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:23:41 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files Message-ID: <20070204032340.GI779@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20070203.161857.1586001550.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200702030645.l136j3EQ039631@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070203194700.GF779@funkthat.com> <20070203.161857.1586001550.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh wrote this message on Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 16:18 -0700:
> In message: <20070203194700.GF779@funkthat.com>
> John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
> : Warner Losh wrote this message on Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:45 +0000:
> : > imp 2007-02-03 06:45:02 UTC
> : >
> : > FreeBSD src repository
> : >
> : > Modified files:
> : > sys/conf files
> : > Log:
> : > Mark mmc *_if.m files as standard to allow for mmc/sd being compiled
> : > as a module.
> : >
> : > Submitted by: Andrea Bittau
> :
> : Those files don't need to be marked standard to allow module building..
> : Either you can compile the *_if.c file as a seperate module and depend
> : upon them, or compile the *_if.c into the module directly...
> :
> : Many other modules do not require their *_if.m files to be marked
> : standard...
> :
> : It looks like some others could possibly be cleaned up and not made
> : standard, such as eisa...
>
> Sadly, these do need to be standard to actually load the drivers. The
> reason they are all marked standard is because it is hard to get the
> inter-module loading issues if they aren't. The problem is best
> illustrated by pccard. pccard provides interfaces to cbb to call, as
> well as calls cbb interfaces. Using a module depends makes it so you
> can't unload either of the modules...
And what about creating a cbbpccardinterface module that both cbb and
pccard depend upon?
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