Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:38:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp (NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa), mike@smith.net.au, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, nate@mt.sri.com, nathan@rtfm.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO Integration? Message-ID: <199812162338.PAA01733@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:11:36 GMT." <199812160811.IAA37602@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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> [.....] > > Try to name one ting that you could do with "config" that you could > > not do with a sufficiently dynamic kernel loadable module framework. > [.....] > > Is it possible to load ``n'' pseudo-devices (without teaching the > driver to be dynamic enough to do it itself) ? My kernel config says > ``pseudo-device tun 300''.... You can only do this by setting the compile-time tunable, ie. set NTUN to 300 when you build the module. Pseudo-devices probably want their own bus, whose probe code would be responsible for resolving this. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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