Re: OT(?) -- Should the net.agent script cause "ifup lo" to be run?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> > Eventually, I think something like XML databases for all
> > the device and driver config data would be a good idea.
> > More extensible than the "modules.*" syntax, easier to
> > document and validate, and flexible enough to handle a
> > variety of applications and be self-documenting.
> 
> However, the modules.<foo>map are updated automatically
> when a kernel introduces new drivers, support for new IDs,
> etc. This is a great benefit.

Sure, but what about all the OTHER metadata that's not
in the *map files?  The *map files are a great feature, for
exactly the reason you identified, but I don't think that
should be the end of the road.  They don't say which of
the drivers are experimental, or provide driver docs.


>     Also, shoving an XML parser
> onto the root partition might be more than most people want...

A decent nonvalidating XML parser in C shouldn't be large;
I'm thinking 10KB, maybe it's a bit larger; how big's "expat"?
Though I'd not assume any tools using that other metadata
would necessarily need to be used at boot time.

- Dave


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