Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: mike@smith.net.au, ck@adsu.bellsouth.com, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: KLD naming Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901210936480.703-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FDC2@OCTOPUS>
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 paul@originative.co.uk wrote: > > Why not have a third party identifier on the front, e.g. > > whistle_ng_rfc1490 > > You can determine your own naming scheme then and if we make this > standard then it will ensure that third party supplied modules don't > result in name space conflicts. It's perfectly feasible in the future > that different companies might produce competing modules for subsystems, > sound for example, so we might as well deal with this possibility now. > Makes it easier to identify the source of the modules as well. Perhaps > we should adopt a FreeBSD prefix on core modules so you can see from ls > what's part of the OS and what's been added in from elsewhere. > > Although I'm in favour of this naming scheme over directories you can > reach the point where the names are holding too much metainformation > that really should be directory structure. There wouldn't be need for > directories at all if you put the structure in the filename :-) Well whistle is giving htis away so we don'tthink it should be whistle_xxx any more than the kernel should be UCB/... It occur to me that eventually every single device driver will be a KLD an also a lot of other things besides... there are going to be a LOT of files in /modules.... > > Paul. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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