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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: From the release-eng's wishlist
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 95 9:25:45 MST
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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
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