Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 01:06:01 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000609010601.B4523@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <200006090323.UAA01210@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:20:15PM -0400 References: <393F55AD.446B9B3D@elischer.org> <200006090323.UAA01210@mass.cdrom.com>
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I personally, don't see the reason for having this sort of thing in embedded devices, either, a lot of which have just exactly what they need to operate in the kernel, leaving nothing to be loaded or unloaded. As far as the kerneld stuff goes, the kernel obviously provides us with an interface with which to load these drivers from whatever may use them, there probably isn't a need after all for this sort of thing, so I'm done thinking about it, on to more pertinent things... Mike Smith had the audacity to say: > Nobody in their right mind is going to produce a "really small ram" > embedded system that features the sort of nondeterminism that > "automatically" (read 'randomly') unloading modules would involve. > > It's simple; a kernel-module-handling-daemon does not have anything to > offer us at this time. We don't need one; the problems it might be > applied to solve have already been solved differently, and we are > (generally) happy with the results. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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