From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 18:00:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19846 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19834 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:00:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA10934; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma010925; Wed, 20 Jan 99 17:37:58 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA27076; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:37:57 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199901210137.RAA27076@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: KLD naming In-Reply-To: <199901202336.PAA04090@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 20, 99 03:36:14 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:37:57 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith writes: > > > A single directory holding module files. > > > > Blech :-) > > Put aside the aesthetics for a moment, and try to raise some real, > practical objections. I'm continually battling my own temptation to > make the whole module thing more complex, but if you've got really good > reasons that can justify the extra complexity everywhere I'm still open > to suggestions. You've got a good point, I don't have any really good reasons, other than trying to be 'organized'. I guess if it looks like the number of files is getting out of hand, then at that time we can say "I told you so!" and then fix the problem. Solving problems on-demand rather than preemptively is more efficient I suppose.. :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message