Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:27:56 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Gary T. Corcoran) <gcorcoran@lucent.com>, (Alfred Perlstein) <bright@wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: Module parameters? (WildWire DSL card driver) Message-ID: <XFMail.001017142756.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200010170428.VAA06237@usr01.primenet.com>
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On 17-Oct-00 Terry Lambert wrote: > I guess I'm asking "What moron would want to intentionally disable > system resource tracking?". > > It's OK for the driver to not care, I guess, if it doesn't want to > allow you to unload it, and other evil things. > > > I can maybe buy the legacy argument, but, frankly, and I said > this when Poul and David first asked that the capability to > track closes first went in, unless everyone plays by the same > rules, no one benefits. If you don't need 'per-open' instance data then getting notified of the final close would be sufficient. Also, if you only allow one open you don't need to track each close. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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