From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 13 9:29:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7A337BF9B; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01736; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:29:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAApYaywd; Tue Jun 13 09:29:11 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08308; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:28:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006131628.JAA08308@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pci.c pcisupport.c pcivar.h To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:28:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), dfr@FreeBSD.ORG (Doug Rabson), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <8947.960886026@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 13, 2000 10:47:06 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Completely unrelated to where we do this, I have had a fair number of > people ask me why we don't say stuff like: > > "Found Configure \"blaha\" driver in your kernel" > > I can see all the bloat arguments, but I have to say that the idea > has some merit... So would just loading the frigging driver from the modules directory, instead of beating the user over the head to do it for you. If you know what the problem is well enough to emit an error message, and you have the code available in the kernel to do what the error message says is the pallative action, then why not just do it, instead of tunneling your instructions through a human to a config prgram, back to the kernel asking for the action? Humans are notoriously lossy data transports. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message