Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:46:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:45:37 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:20486 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:44:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? To: esr@thyrsus.com Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:56:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), babydr@baby-dragons.com (Mr. James W. Laferriere), cate@debian.org (Giacomo Catenazzi), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel List) In-Reply-To: <20020114131050.E14747@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Jan 14, 2002 01:10:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > that 20% being in the nasty complicated bits where the maintainability > improvement will be greatest. And I can get rid of the nasty "vitality" > flag, which probably the worst wart on the language. > > Yowza...so how soon is this supposed to happen? Subject to availability. No contract implied or etc.. Its something to tackle after the rest of initramfs works. Even if not then the lsmod case can be made to work since its just a matter of putting the names in a segment for the linker to collate. We already have module_init/module_exit which is a big chunk of the cleanup. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/