From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 09:44:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02563 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:44:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02558 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:44:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA17852; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:39:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdS17842; Thu Jan 21 17:39:20 1999 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.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 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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