From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 23 8:29:42 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFF314F6C for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:27:28 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Chuck Robey" , "Peter Wemm" Cc: Subject: RE: Building klds (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include param.hsrc/sys/alpha/include param.h src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/conf LINT) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:27:28 -0700 Message-ID: <000201bf05d8$25511990$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > This is interesting ... I was under the impression that the idea of having > hte kernel dynamically load things was more than just a kernel > space-saver, it was supposed to be a way to have one set of code be able > to adapt to any user's machine environment, even if it changes on > the fly. > Your statement makes me think that you intend that the road ahead holds > modules that are customized in such a way that no such real portable > adaptability is in our future. Would not the "one set of code" of which you speak be a kernel and a set of modules compiled as a unit for the purpose of being such a set? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message