Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 02:18:16 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <19980604021816.09262@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199806032344.QAA08803@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:44:10PM %2B0000 References: <199806030915.NAA15706@sinbin.demos.su> <199806032344.QAA08803@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:44:10PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > [...] Of course, modifying the config program (which should die, > die, die to be replaced by simple object file agregation) is left as > an exercise for the weenies. [...] This isn't a simple exercise, and it is even less simple than it looks at first. There is a _lot_ of incest in there. Examples of things that need to be fixed: * The use of 'UNION' in vfs_syscalls.c * The use of COMPAT_43 at all * The use of defines to shift the tuner in the brooktree driver * The use of defines to set options for the AHC driver * The dependency of the Linux module on COMPAT_43 * The existance of 'maxusers' and all the constants that depend on it * The way 1/3 of the the kernel is dependent on 'INET' * The use of defines instead of variables to control kernel PPP * The way 'QUOTA' change things in all the filesystems * The way the BOOTP options are used all through the kernel * Some other way of setting the panic reboot time * Move SPX_HACK to a sysctl, including creating proper infrastructure around it (or possible just decide that we're going to throw this options away - I don't know if anybody use it) Most of these are reasonably sized projects, and many of them can easily be expressed as small enough patches that they'll have a large chance of being committed more or less directly. If you want the removal of config to happen, _do something about it_. Don't just bitch - help us progress to a stage where we can at least see that we've got a chance of ever reaching the target! Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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