Date: Tue, 7 Feb 95 9:25:45 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: phk@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: From the release-eng's wishlist Message-ID: <9502071625.AA11878@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199502070429.UAA10082@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 6, 95 08:29:04 pm
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> And now, something entirely different: Our kernel has become rather big > lately, if somebody were to change a device-driver to use malloc rather > than "struct softc_foo foo_dev[NFOO];" and preferrably make the driver > completely disregard the value of NFOO in preparation for PCMCIA and > other such stuff then I wouldn't mind at all :-) AND DON'T DO THE MALLOC UNLESS THE PROBE COMES TRUE, PLEASE! There is nothing worse than a device driver you feed memory to just to have it sit around watching television all day. > This is a good way to get your code finished, you have a good chance > of finding co-developers and testers, and maybe even somebody willing > to inherit some code you have sidetracked... "FreeBSD Classified Ads" :-) I have a *lot* of code in the sidetracked category. I might be persuaded to do this. Much of it will require porting from 0.1 and 1.0 to 2.x, so I won't be persuaded immediately on most things, but there's a few of them that might fit the bill now; let me go through some the stuff before emailing a list. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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