From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 21:58:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6098737B4C5; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09570; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:27:56 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010170428.VAA06237@usr01.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:27:56 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Module parameters? (WildWire DSL card driver) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Gary T. Corcoran) , (Alfred Perlstein) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Oct-00 Terry Lambert wrote: > I guess I'm asking "What moron would want to intentionally disable > system resource tracking?". > > It's OK for the driver to not care, I guess, if it doesn't want to > allow you to unload it, and other evil things. > > > I can maybe buy the legacy argument, but, frankly, and I said > this when Poul and David first asked that the capability to > track closes first went in, unless everyone plays by the same > rules, no one benefits. If you don't need 'per-open' instance data then getting notified of the final close would be sufficient. Also, if you only allow one open you don't need to track each close. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message