From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 12:15:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22514 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles236.castles.com [208.214.165.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22493 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10797; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901212011.MAA10797@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christian Kuhtz cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kld meta info (Re: KLD naming) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:10:44 EST." <19990121151044.B5050@oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:11:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is there meta information in a .ko file? That way you could do a kldinfo to > find out where to go for more info, etc. There's not time to standardise this, so I would say that 3.x .ko files won't have metainformation internally, no. Certainly 4.x .ko files will carry a lot more metainformation with them, and that may include this, yes. > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:13:49AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > I've thought about this, and I think it would be a very bad idea. > > > > We want to keep this *simple*. In the case of, eg. OSS, one might > > expect: > > > > dev_oss.ko > > oss_yamaha.ko > > oss_sb16.ko > > ... > > > > There's no need to add extra crap just to identify the vendor. It > > doesn't serve any really useful purpose - we will have metainformation > > elsewhere that can be used to link modules comprising a product > > together - there's no need to duplicate it in the filename. > > -- > "Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree; that smells *awful*." > -- /usr/bin/fortune > > [Disclaimer: I speak for myself and my views are my own and not in any way to > be construed as the views of BellSouth Corporation. ] -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message