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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:15:12 -0400 
From:      "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com>
To:        "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: kerneld for FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <E598F159668DD311B9C700902799EAF4473417@njb140po01.ems.att.com>

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sorry, hit wrong key... :) 
in addition to my previous message...

> > 2) kernel/user space does not unload modules, unless you
> > unload it manually
> 
> This is, IMO, a good idea.  I certainly don't want some 
> smartass daemon 
> unloading a module just because it thinks it should. 8)

another option in config file? something like ``do_not_unload''? 
 
> > 3) we can not configure which module should be loaded. 
> > it is hardcoded
> 
> Since the code knows what it wants, this isn't necessarily a 
> bad thing 
> either.  In most cases, part of the module name is actually 
> parametric, 
> eg. in the ifconfig(8) case, so this isn't as much of a problem as it 
> sounds.

i do not agree :-) code wants device driver/interface/filesystem/????. 
code should not care about module name. of course it is better to have 
name convension, but i think this is not the case. :-)

thanks,
emax


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