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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:29:37 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brktree_reg.h brooktree848.c
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Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> 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.


in all the drivers I modified (that's nearly all of them)
I ifdef'd the tokens so they are not causing bloat..

julian