Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:12:43 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: gelderen@mediaport.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD naming Message-ID: <199901200612.WAA20699@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901191956591.47597-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Jan 19, 99 07:59:16 pm"
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Doug Rabson writes: > > Might it be a good idea to choose a consistent naming scheme for the > > modules? I'd think so because it would help blind loading at the boot > > prompt. If you choose names it the following format: > > > > type_name > > saver_warp > > saver_daemon > > > > the modules of one type will sort together in a directory listing. This is a > > change that will make FreeBSD more user friendly I think. > > When I first started writing KLD, I had a vague notion that there would be > a simple directory structure under /modules, e.g.: > > /modules > pci/ > ncr.ko > ... > isa/ > if_ed.ko > ... > ... I like this idea (subdirectories) better.. it will last longer :-) Witness the explosion of the ports tree. You should then be able to load a module "isa/if_ed.ko" etc and have it work (no leading slash). In fact, we can implement this (maybe it already works) before coming to a final decision on what the actual layout should be. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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