From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 12 20:06:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA11456 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:06:42 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA11451 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:06:39 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA08380; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:05:55 -0700 To: Terry Lambert cc: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer), jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX now available In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:14:00 PDT." <199510130214.TAA16568@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:05:55 -0700 Message-ID: <8378.813553555@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > The gist of this is that he wants to work on putting simple linker code > into the kernel, and I very much agree with him. Assuming that you and the anti-bloatists can work this out, this and everything following it certainly sounds reasonable to me. dev_add_char (just dev_add?) dev_remove_char (just dev_remove?) I prefer the latter, more generic, versions. If you're going to have a nice standard API for talking to LKMs, you may as well try to make as few assumptions about the kinds of data you'll be handing back and forth as possible. Uh, speaking of which.. How do LKMs and the kernel expect to talk back and forth in general? Is it like a roman orgy in there, where LKMs and kernel share one, common global variable space and anybody can fondle any variable they see, or.. ? I guess I need to go UTSL, don't I? :-) Anyway, it certainly seems like you have a direction in mind. How would you see such a project being staffed and actually "managed" on a day to day basis? Clearly, there's a lot of work represented here and it'd take some coordination to actually pull it off. Jordan