From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 3 14:00:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA16850 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 14:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mira.net.au (eplet.mira.net.au [203.9.190.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA16842 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 14:00:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26768 invoked from network); 3 Jan 1997 22:00:34 -0000 Received: from melb.werple.net.au (203.9.190.18) by eplet.mira.net.au with SMTP; 3 Jan 1997 22:00:34 -0000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.6/8.7.3/2) with UUCP id IAA09979; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 08:56:15 +1100 (EST) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA28481; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 08:51:44 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199701032151.IAA28481@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: MOD_DECL in lkm.h To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 08:51:43 +1100 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9701032029.AA09026@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jan 3, 97 03:29:49 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman wrote: > That was one of the things that devconf was supposed to do, but this > was never implemented before Poul-Henning destroyed it. So, I'm looking in my crystal ball, and what do I see that the future will bring? Will devfs become univeral? Will we be able to get away from the (nasty IMO) need to have source installed to configure a kernel? > > -GAWollman -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137