Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:41:28 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, nate@root.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/iwi Makefile src/sys/dev/iwi if_iwi.c if_iwireg.h if_iwivar.h Message-ID: <438214D8.1000203@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20051121.113052.71133065.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <4381FEDF.7080607@root.org> <20051121.111955.74713410.imp@bsdimp.com> <43821134.6040306@samsco.org> <20051121.113052.71133065.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh wrote: >>Making the driver aware of the filesystem layout is a bad idea. > > > Your opinion has been noted. Repeating it often isn't going to help. > It has its advantages from the user point of view (I put a file here > and it is used, my tool of choice can always be "cp"). > > >>Encapsulating data into a KLD is not hard to do. > > > Neither is a dozen other things that we do automatically for the > user. From a user point of view this is a pita. I put this file > here, and then I have to remember which magic tool to run to convert > the iwi firmware into a kld. But that's a different tool from the wi > driver and that's different from the iwp driver, etc. > > Each approach has its pro's and con's. Getting dogmatic about 'X is a > bad idea, therefor you must do Y' without looking at why 'Y' might be > a worse alternative to 'X' isn't going to help this discussion. > > Warner Lack of useful content noted. Thanks. Scott
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