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To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), bde@zeta.org.au,
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Subject: Re: MOD_DECL in lkm.h 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Jan 1997 08:51:43 +1100."
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Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 08:37:47 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199701032151.IAA28481@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>, John Birrell write
s:
>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.

"but this would never have been implemented until the second coming"

is probably more correct.

>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?

And a cure for cancer & peace in middle east.

All in due time, yes.

But it depends a good deal on contributions arriving.

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