Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:16:33 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@cokane.org> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, current@freebsd.org, cokane@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: separate 3dfx_linux module Message-ID: <44034201.4040304@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060227181610.GB6099@pint.candc.home> References: <20060225140509.GC79616@comp.chem.msu.su> <44008314.8030205@samsco.org> <20060225201102.GA6936@pint.candc.home> <20060227121305.GO6435@comp.chem.msu.su> <20060227175740.GA6099@pint.candc.home> <44033D92.2020009@samsco.org> <20060227181610.GB6099@pint.candc.home>
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Coleman Kane wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:57:38AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >>Coleman Kane wrote: >> >>>On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:13:05PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: >>> >>> >>>>It was exactly my point, too: the TDFX_LINUX option has to be there >>>>so that people still can compile device tdfx with Linux support into >>>>the main kernel file. >>> >>> >>>Not to mention so that they can omit said functionality if it is not >>>desired. I believe that the kmod by default compiles this in though. >>> >>> >>> >>>>-- >>>>Yar >> >>Ok, I envisioned this as: >> >>device tdfx >>device tdfxlinux # Optional Linux compatibility >> >>I don't have a strong opinion on it, and I'll defer to whatever Coleman >>and Yar think is most appropriate. > > > My impression was more that the current config format would stay the > same, but there'd be separate modules (rather than incorporating it all > into tdfx.ko): > tdfx.ko > tdfx_linux.ko > > Much like how wlan.ko and wlan_*.ko operate? > Well, we are talking about different things here, I think. I absolutely agree with having separate .ko files, regardless of what kernel options or devices are specified. What I'm wondering about is when building the tdfx driver into the kernel, does the tdfx-linux functionality come in via an 'option' or a 'device'. If it's an 'option', does that mean that you can load the tdfx_linux.ko module into a kernel that has the tdfx device included? Scott
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