From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 18:40:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9B116A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:40:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4AE143D41 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:40:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 31696 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2005 18:40:45 -0000 Received: from gate.funkthat.com (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Mar 2005 18:40:43 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (klyvwf@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])j2SIegGH009702; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j2SIegcn009701; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:40:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:40:42 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: mohamed aslan Message-ID: <20050328184042.GZ37984@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: mohamed aslan , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <319cceca0503281001792baf39@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <319cceca0503281001792baf39@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: organization X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:40:46 -0000 mohamed aslan wrote this message on Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:01 -0800: > it's my first post here, BTW i was a linux hacker and linux kernel > mailing list member for 3 years. > > and i've a comment here , i think the freebsd kernel source files > aren't well organized as linux ones. If you are going to provide criticism, you should provide some reasons.. and/or examples of why... It's like me saying that the Linux kernel build infastructure isn't very clean... and then giving no reason for it... but I'm not going to be like you, and give you a reason: I can't speek for current versions of Linux, but older ones if you changed a small part of your kernel config, it would require you to rebuild the entire kernel source tree... With FreeBSD, I can add or remove drivers, and my new kernel will be done in about a minute... Much nicer... Please provide more content in your messages to this list... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."