From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 11:45:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4CF106566C for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:45:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D26F8FC25 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:45:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JV3fi-0000Gp-4k for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:45:02 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:45:02 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:45:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:44:44 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <47C73262.1020805@rawbw.com> <20080229074208.GT83599@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE56D3D117332E9A06561754D" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: <20080229074208.GT83599@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: umass: should the device specific information be moved from C code to the text file? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:45:04 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE56D3D117332E9A06561754D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Peter Jeremy wrote: > This sounds like a nice idea - it's also a nuisance having to recompile= > the kernel just to support a weird new USB device you've acquired. You can probably keep USB support as a module if you need to recompile it often :) On the original topic: please don't do that. Recent ultra-modern Linux systems have started offloading such critical kernel functionalities to the userland, making it almost impossible to deal with when things go bad (e.g. in single user mode). See also trouble ZFS has in single user mode because it relies on files in the file system and a userland rc.d script (hostid). --------------enigE56D3D117332E9A06561754D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHx/AsldnAQVacBcgRAitIAKCxtGLGhqBdSRIf2738+8tAqiIwVQCfRZkZ 68o50mNmtW3TeqJX+V1nClA= =el9e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE56D3D117332E9A06561754D--