From owner-cvs-sys Wed Feb 4 12:16:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29024 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:16:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-sys) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28857; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:16:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA20415; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:15:58 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id VAA28645; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:15:56 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980204211555.00395@follo.net> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:15:55 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Julian Elischer Cc: Bruce Evans , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brktree_reg.h brooktree848.c References: <199802040748.SAA00670@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <34D8BA73.59E2B600@whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <34D8BA73.59E2B600@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:58:59AM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:58:59AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: [on saving DEVFS tokens, which is only required for LKMable devices] > hopefully ALL drivers will eventually be loadable.. > saving the token now is just to save having to do it later.. I disagree. Saving the token now is creating dead code, which you _might_ want to have similar code to later. And this tends to create dependencies on the DEVFS option in header files, which is evil. I don't think we'll have loadable modules for most of the drivers until at the _very_ least 1/2 yeaqr into the future, and by then we'll hopefully have DEVFS as a default and get rid of the option :-) Eivind.