Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:09:04 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: "Sam Leffler \(FreeBSD Project\)" <sam@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: (forw) Re: USB4BSD - release candidate 2 - coming to FreeBSD this week. Message-ID: <20081018140904.GA50010@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20081018135128.GA44082@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20081015173319.GB46393@elvis.mu.org> <200810152124.12637.hselasky@c2i.net> <20081016092343.GB24852@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <200810180930.33078.hselasky@c2i.net> <20081018135128.GA44082@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:51:29AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 09:30:32AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On Thursday 16 October 2008, Brooks Davis wrote: ... > > > 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 > > > > Hi Brooks, > > > > That's no problem. Is the following list of module names acceptable? > > While I do kind of like them, I'd tend to lean toward not including the > device classes in the names as that is a) tradtional and b) an easier > transition for people with existing custom kernels. actually there is already a precedent -- snd_* have a deviceclass prefix, and the prefix is certainly a step forward in making the config files more readable (especially with the cryptic 2/3 letter driver names that we use. With the change to usb2 people will have to add a prefix anyways, so this seems a good chance to start using the deviceclass prefix as well. cheers luigi
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