From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 05:13:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F81D37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB91743F75 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3MCCH932325; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:12:18 -0300 Message-ID: <3EA531A0.3060209@tcoip.com.br> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:12:16 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <200304171136.57515.agh@tpg.com.au> <3E9EB7DF.4040104@tcoip.com.br> <20030417.205459.78025666.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030417.205459.78025666.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto kernel module loading X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:13:48 -0000 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <3E9EB7DF.4040104@tcoip.com.br> > "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : Plan once was for loader to identify the PNP IDs and load the > : appropriate modules. What the appropriate modules were would be infered > : from a configuration file. > : > : I think Mike decided that wasn't such a good idea after all, but I > : wasn't much in touch with FreeBSD at the time, so I remember it only > : vaguely. > > Yes. My plan is to make devd deal with most of the problem... You'll > still need to compile / device into your kernel, however. Mmmm? The point is having a minimal kernel.ko. If you still have to compile the device in the kernel, it does nothing at all to reach the desired goal. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde