drop snd_ from DRIVER_MODULEs...

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:06:07 -0700
John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote this message on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:43
> -0700:
> > Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > 
> > >Am Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:05:58 -0700
> > >schrieb Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org>:
> > >
> > >>John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Ian Smith wrote this message on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 00:44
> > >+1000: >>
> > >>>>paqi# ll /boot/kernel | grep snd_
> > >>>>-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    16428 Feb 25 06:28 snd_ad1816.ko
> > >>>>
> > >[...]
> > > 
> > >>>>-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18760 Feb 25 06:28 snd_vibes.ko
> > >>>>
> > >>I prefer that they keep the names and interfaces that miss the
> > >if_  >prefix should probably grow them.
> > >
> > >Are you referring to the file names (which will not change with
> > >this patch), or to the "internal ID" of the module (which
> > >changes)?
> > 
> > I prefer that the file names have the prefix and that the file
> > names  match the module names as much as possible.
> 
> And just because you seem to be late in the conversation, I do not
> plan on changing the file names, they are fine the way they are..
> 
> but if we do keep them the same, then we need to change how modules
> are named...  because for the most part, modules are named by
> bus/device... If you really think that the module names should grow
> the prefix, then we should change the module names to not include
> the bus attachment:
>                 32 pci/atapci
>                 37 pci/em
>                 38 fwohci/firewire
>                 39 pci/fwohci
>                 41 firewire/fwe
>                 50 miibus/e1000phy
>                 71 pcib/pci
>                 72 pci/pcib
>                 169 nexus/legacy
>                 172 legacy/mptable_pcib
>                 174 root/nexus
>                 187 legacy/pcib
> 
> acpi.ko:
>                  3 nexus/acpi
>                  6 pcib/acpi_pci
>                  7 acpi/acpi_pcib
> 
> The acpi_pci and acpi_pcib attachments are a bit special as they use
> classes to modify the underlying pci and pcib behavior..
> 
I don't have any objection on this, but I do agree with Julian in a
sense that "ich" could mean something else (ich SATA, ich this, that)
though currently ATA (or others) does not make such provision.



--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD
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