Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 01:06:45 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD naming Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901210104340.16689-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199901202046.MAA23549@bubba.whistle.com>
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > I like this idea (subdirectories) better.. it will last longer :-) > > > > It's a really bad idea, because it requires you to classify things. It > > also makes it much harder to administer. In addition, classifications > > are bad (witness the need to reorganise the kernel source tree). > > > > > You should then be able to load a module "isa/if_ed.ko" etc > > > and have it work (no leading slash). > > > > And here is a good example. Why would you want to put if_ed in the > > "ISA" category when it can be attached to both the PCI and ISA busses? > > I don't care how you classify it.. of course the "isa" category is wrong. > > I was just pointing out that having things in subdirectories > is better than having a zillion files piled into a single directory. Not always. Consider a case when all modules are on a slow media (such as a floppy or zipfs) - then putting things in subdirs adds quite significant overhead to load/ls/search due to pathname lookups. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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