cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Tue Jan 23 19:39:05 UTC 2007


mjacob at freebsd.org wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> a) It'd be nice if we could move quirks to some sysctl or hints format
>>> to get out of this tail chasing business.
>>>
>>>
>> There are other databases besides quirks that'd be good to make more
>> flexible.  Wonder if splitting them into modules would be an
>> improvement?  Not as good as a sysctl or a hint but it would allow
>> changing a GENERIC kernel w/o rebuilding.
> 
> If people can't set it via the OK prompt, that's a problem.
> 
> If you just do a module, all you're doing is moving compiled code from
> one place to another. IMO.

My thought was if it's split into a module then you can have alternative
modules available at the loader prompt/menu to fallback to.  Also if
it's split out we can probably auto-generate it.

	Sam


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