Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:23:43 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: "Sam Leffler \(FreeBSD Project\)" <sam@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (forw) Re: USB4BSD - release candidate 2 - coming to FreeBSD this week. Message-ID: <20081016092343.GB24852@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <200810152124.12637.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20081015173319.GB46393@elvis.mu.org> <200810152124.12637.hselasky@c2i.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:24:11PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > 4. I'm interested to understand why these container modules exist > > instead of individual drivers. > > They exist to make loading USB drivers easier. It is simpler to > load "usb2_serial" than to emperically search for a specific serial port > driver. In the future the "usb2_serial" module will load the correct driver > for you. If you want a stub usb2_serial module that loads all serial drivers, that migh be useful, but we do not have an (e.g.) if_ethernet module for a reason. The individual drivers MUST continue to exist and be independently configurable so embedded systems can choose what they need and exclude what they don't. -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFI9wgeXY6L6fI4GtQRAm7dAJ4/t0VvXW2abp1kOc2m+QgpqVkmeACfTeq7 qEYnPep3bhcNLTz2/JmJJwM= =TXVV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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