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

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Warner Losh wrote:

> > 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.

Not taking one side or the other...  Can we use a common
tool to convert firmware to a kld?  Just pass it the
symbol name or whatever else you need?

I guess this makes the assumption that most firmware consists
of just one object file.

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DE