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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: sysorg: sys/modules
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On 14 Jun 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Speaking of sysorg, sys/modules is a bleeding mess.  I'd love to see

I agree.  It became worse recently when someone added the fs subdir.

>...
>  - gather all vfs modules into sys/modules/fs (pseudofs and linprocfs
>    are already there, procfs will be there shortly)
> 
>  - gather all storage-related modules (RAID and SCSI controller
>    drivers, CAM, ccd, vinum etc.) into sys/modules/storage
> 
>  - gather all image activators and ABI compatibility modules into
>    sys/modules/compat
> 
>  - gather all the USB drivers into sys/modules/usb
> 
>  - put whatever's left into sys/modules/misc

No thanks.

> I know this means a lot of repo-copies, and it may not be worth the
> hassle if the new kernel & module build system materializes in the
> very near future, but at least some of this (the syscons module
> sources) needs to move no matter what.

It wouldn't be worth it even if it were right.  Hopefully the new build
system will put all the object files in the same directory, like they
are for static kernel builds.

Bruce


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