From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 19:10:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (ether.cdrom.com [204.216.28.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4ADF37BB93 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA03995; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006080213.TAA03995@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: void Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 02:56:37 BST." <20000608025637.A20104@firedrake.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:13:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:01:41AM -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > > An Operating System should only do that when the administrator is so > > stupid that he/she actually loads "unused" drivers. > > I'm talking about for example a tape driver that was loaded to deal with > a tape drive which is currently not in use. Not unused in the sense of > useless, but in the sense of not currently active. This is just a Really Pointless Idea. There are so many more useful and interesting things to get done... *sigh* -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message