From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 11 21:34:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03137 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles306.castles.com [208.214.167.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02861; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (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 VAA03290; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810120436.VAA03290@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Robert V. Baron" cc: Doug Rabson , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys kernel.h In-reply-to: Your message of "11 Oct 1998 19:54:16 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:36:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I actually also preferred this terminology; to me a module is a pluggable unit component, which may serve multiple functions but is effectively the atomic unit when it comes to mobility and connection. This is something that can be argued endlessly; I'm not sure that a debate would help at all. > > I like the model that I lump a bunch of files into a "module" and then > the module initializes a bunch of "services/resources". > > Doug Rabson writes: > > > This is directly addressed by the KLD system. The terminology is that a > > 'file' (ELF or a.out) is loaded by the kernel linker. The file contains a > > number of 'modules', each of which is initialised and has an event handler > > (similar to lkmdispatch). The kernel in many ways is a file which > > contains all the statically linked modules. > > -- \\ 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message