Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:01:26 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drop snd_ from DRIVER_MODULEs... Message-ID: <20060419110126.4iz4bj0x5wo4wwgk@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20060419082716.GJ38619@funkthat.com> References: <20060418032520.GG38619@funkthat.com> <20060419094909.pt0jmp5n4scg4kg4@netchild.homeip.net> <20060419082716.GJ38619@funkthat.com>
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Quoting John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> (from Wed, 19 =20 Apr 2006 01:27:17 -0700): > Alexander Leidinger wrote this message on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:49 +0200= : >> What are the benefits of this patch? Why should we commit it? What's >> wrong with the current way of naming? How is this patch an improvement? >> >> I don't object to the patch (haven't tested it), but what are the benefit= s? > > The benifits are more consistant naming of our modules... Only three > ethernet modules have if_ in front, and the rest are the raw device > names.. It also means that the module names matches more closely to If no problem shows up (see below), this reason is good enough for me =20 to not object to such a change. > the driver that implemented by them (though this is a bit complicated > w/ the fact that pcm is the real driver behind these modules and pcm > isn't it's own device node)... It also makes my driver/module dependancy Do you suggest to make pcm it's own device node, and if you do, what =20 are the benefits/...? > script do the correct thing wrt to gusc and sbc.. (The graph can be > seen at: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/driver.pdf )... With out this > change gusc and sbc would be their own sub-graphs not connected to > anything besides their children... And we can't change gusc and sbc in a way to make your script work as =20 intended? I don't suggest doing this instead of your proposal, I just =20 want to know what options we have. > Though I do realize that sound module names are special since they > can (and do) end in numbers which none of our other drivers do... Is this a problem? And if yes, why is this not a problem with the =20 current snd_ prefix? Bye, Alexander. --=20 http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137 Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
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