From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 16 15:43:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01109 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:43:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles353.castles.com [208.214.167.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01077 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:43:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01733; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:38:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812162338.PAA01733@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Somers cc: Terry Lambert , 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? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:11:36 GMT." <199812160811.IAA37602@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:38:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [.....] > > 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