Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:39:04 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: mjacob@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c Message-ID: <45B66458.9030406@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20070123112723.P43982@ns1.feral.com> References: <20070123173026.E692416A4CD@hub.freebsd.org> <45B65710.4060607@root.org> <20070123105009.G41619@ns1.feral.com> <45B65E4C.2050306@errno.com> <20070123112723.P43982@ns1.feral.com>
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mjacob@freebsd.org wrote: > >>> >>> a) It'd be nice if we could move quirks to some sysctl or hints format >>> to get out of this tail chasing business. >>> >>> >> There are other databases besides quirks that'd be good to make more >> flexible. Wonder if splitting them into modules would be an >> improvement? Not as good as a sysctl or a hint but it would allow >> changing a GENERIC kernel w/o rebuilding. > > If people can't set it via the OK prompt, that's a problem. > > If you just do a module, all you're doing is moving compiled code from > one place to another. IMO. My thought was if it's split into a module then you can have alternative modules available at the loader prompt/menu to fallback to. Also if it's split out we can probably auto-generate it. Sam
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