Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:25:15 -0800 From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org> Cc: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-src@FreeBSD.org>, <src-committers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES files src/sys/modules/rndtest Message-ID: <1e0c01c2e825$78d9aa40$52557f42@errno.com> References: <XFMail.20030311164735.jhb@FreeBSD.org><1b5a01c2e81a$c0455c40$52557f42@errno.com><xzpbs0hwmvf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no><1c1001c2e81f$328bd410$52557f42@errno.com><xzpzno1v7pv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no><1d7701c2e821$74396b00$52557f42@errno.com> <xzpof4hv7b4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> writes:
> > > Non sequitur. I asked what you meant by "Note that drivers must
> > > (currently) be compiled specially to enable use", since I don't know
> > > what it means to compile a driver "specially". Did you mean
> > > statically? If so, why did you even bother to commit a module
> > > Makefile?
> > Oh! And here I thought this was a meta discussion about attribution and
the
> > origins of the code. :)
>
> ...and there you go again, not answering my question. I'm starting to
> wonder whether you're doing it on purpose :)
>
I answered you privately but my response probably should be shared. Took me
a while to realize what you were pointing out.
Yes, it appears the rndtest module is useless right now. At one time I had
things structured so that drivers were contacted by rndtest to do the
interposing but that got too messy so I went to the current structure where
drivers must be compiled with rndtest support in them and the kernel must
include the rndtest driver. At some point I'd like to see this
functionality go elsewhere and this may make it possible to be a module
again.
Not sure if I should purge the module or not. It compiles. Perhaps I
should just unhook it from the build.
Sam
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