From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 13 11:43:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC6437BC4D for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:43:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07752; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:43:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA16232; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:42:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006131842.MAA16232@harmony.village.org> To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pci.c pcisupport.c pcivar.h Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:37:49 -0000." <200006131637.JAA08514@usr05.primenet.com> References: <200006131637.JAA08514@usr05.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:42:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200006131637.JAA08514@usr05.primenet.com> Terry Lambert writes: : > In message <8947.960886026@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : > : "Found Configure \"blaha\" driver in your kernel" : > : : > : I can see all the bloat arguments, but I have to say that the idea : > : has some merit... : > : > How could the kernel know all possible device drivers, even third : > party ones? : : 1) Register them in a file : : 2) Read the file using kernel level file I/O : : 3) For simplicity sake, make each line in the file a fixed : length; though some additional variable length text : record stuff in the kernel would be useful eventually, : the "edquota" approach is reasonable. I thought we were trying to get away from having all this information in a centralized repository... The drivers already know this and adding an additional file for this info seems to be asking for problems. I know on Solaris it was from time to time... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message