From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>,
Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Hardwired drivers are going away?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:10:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020114131050.E14747@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201141254001.3238-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com> <E16QBX6-0002Op-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16QBX6-0002Op-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:08:32PM +0000
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> For 2.5 if things go to plan there will be no such thing as a "compiled in"
> driver. They simply are not needed with initramfs holding what were once the
> "compiled in" modules.
This is something of a bombshell. Not necessarily a bad one, but...
Alan, do you have *any* *freakin'* *idea* how much more complicated
the CML2 deduction engine had to be because the basic logical entity
was a tristate rather than a bool? If this plan goes through, I'm
going to be able to drop out at least 20% of the code, with most of
that 20% being in the nasty complicated bits where the maintainability
improvement will be greatest. And I can get rid of the nasty "vitality"
flag, which probably the worst wart on the language.
Yowza...so how soon is this supposed to happen?
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it
fulfills only a third of the role. -- Edward Abbey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-01-14 10:14 ` ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-14 16:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 16:38 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-14 16:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 17:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 17:55 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 18:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:10 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2002-01-14 18:50 ` Hardwired drivers are going away? David Lang
2002-01-14 19:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:57 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 19:03 ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-01-14 19:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 10:45 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-15 11:13 ` crispin
2002-01-15 14:25 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 19:00 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 19:14 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 19:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 20:28 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 19:44 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 20:09 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-14 20:49 ` Chris Friesen
2002-01-14 20:55 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-14 20:51 ` Ian Molton
2002-01-14 22:11 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 23:12 ` Brian Gerst
2002-01-14 23:17 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 23:22 ` Ian Molton
2002-01-15 0:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-14 19:54 ` David Lang
2002-01-15 17:27 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-01-15 17:47 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-15 19:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-18 12:39 ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-18 22:20 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-18 23:22 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-20 23:20 ` Frank van de Pol
2002-01-21 0:54 ` Bruce Harada
2002-01-21 3:49 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-21 4:45 ` Bruce Harada
2002-01-21 5:12 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-21 1:06 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-21 1:07 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-21 1:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21 1:53 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21 2:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21 2:25 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21 2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21 3:43 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21 4:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-21 3:44 ` yodaiken
2002-01-21 20:57 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-21 2:13 ` John Levon
2002-01-21 2:31 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-21 23:52 ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-01-21 9:34 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-21 14:29 ` John Levon
2002-01-21 1:31 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-14 19:27 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-15 17:24 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-01-15 18:17 ` David Lang
2002-01-15 19:25 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-01-15 19:44 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-14 18:54 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-01-14 18:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 19:09 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-14 14:19 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-14 22:33 ` Greg KH
2002-01-15 11:35 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-15 15:34 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-14 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 20:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 14:57 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-14 20:51 ` David Lang
2002-01-14 22:18 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-15 19:20 ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-16 9:00 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 23:12 ` Rusty Russell
2002-02-09 0:19 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-14 17:59 ` ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14 18:35 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <20020115025840.11509.qmail@science.horizon.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-01-15 12:16 ` Hardwired drivers are going away? Andi Kleen
2002-01-15 2:58 peter
2002-01-15 12:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 12:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-15 18:39 ` Rob Landley
[not found] <mailman.1011034621.1626.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-01-14 23:33 ` Pete Zaitcev
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[not found] ` <ksahkuv.tg60gl@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-14 22:22 ` Chris Adams
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2001-08-05 0:39 module unresolved symbols rich+ml
2001-08-05 0:49 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-08-05 0:51 ` Steven Walter
2001-08-05 1:48 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-05 16:06 ` Horst von Brand
2001-08-06 11:18 ` Keith Owens
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