misc/157903: automated kldload for USB class devices

Robert Millan rmh at debian.org
Fri Jun 24 13:00:29 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR conf/157903; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Millan <rmh at debian.org>
To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>
Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, 
	freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org, freebsd-usb at freebsd.org, 
	freebsd-current at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/157903: automated kldload for USB class devices
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:59:37 +0200

 2011/6/24 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>:
 >> Very nice. =C2=A0But why not use variable names instead of hardcoding nu=
 mbers?
 >> It makes the output much easier to understand.
 >
 > To save memory.
 
 I haven't inspected devd code, but I was under the assumption that
 variables only lived untill resolved.  What would be the point of keeping
 them in memory after devd has finished parsing the config files?
 
 --=20
 Robert Millan


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