Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:15:55 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brktree_reg.h brooktree848.c Message-ID: <19980204211555.00395@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <34D8BA73.59E2B600@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:58:59AM -0800 References: <199802040748.SAA00670@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <34D8BA73.59E2B600@whistle.com>
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On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:58:59AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: [on saving DEVFS tokens, which is only required for LKMable devices] > hopefully ALL drivers will eventually be loadable.. > saving the token now is just to save having to do it later.. I disagree. Saving the token now is creating dead code, which you _might_ want to have similar code to later. And this tends to create dependencies on the DEVFS option in header files, which is evil. I don't think we'll have loadable modules for most of the drivers until at the _very_ least 1/2 yeaqr into the future, and by then we'll hopefully have DEVFS as a default and get rid of the option :-) Eivind.
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