cvs commit: src/sys/modules/iwi Makefile src/sys/dev/iwi if_iwi.c if_iwireg.h if_iwivar.h

[Warner Losh]

> 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