cvs commit: src/sys/conf files

[John-Mark Gurney]

Warner Losh wrote this message on Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 16:18 -0700:
> In message: <20070203194700.GF779 at funkthat.com>
>             John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
> : Warner Losh wrote this message on Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:45 +0000:
> : > imp         2007-02-03 06:45:02 UTC
> : > 
> : >   FreeBSD src repository
> : > 
> : >   Modified files:
> : >     sys/conf             files 
> : >   Log:
> : >   Mark mmc *_if.m files as standard to allow for mmc/sd being compiled
> : >   as a module.
> : >   
> : >   Submitted by: Andrea Bittau
> : 
> : Those files don't need to be marked standard to allow module building..
> : Either you can compile the *_if.c file as a seperate module and depend
> : upon them, or compile the *_if.c into the module directly...
> : 
> : Many other modules do not require their *_if.m files to be marked
> : standard...
> : 
> : It looks like some others could possibly be cleaned up and not made
> : standard, such as eisa...
> 
> Sadly, these do need to be standard to actually load the drivers.  The
> reason they are all marked standard is because it is hard to get the
> inter-module loading issues if they aren't.  The problem is best
> illustrated by pccard.  pccard provides interfaces to cbb to call, as
> well as calls cbb interfaces.  Using a module depends makes it so you
> can't unload either of the modules...

And what about creating a cbbpccardinterface module that both cbb and
pccard depend upon?

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