cvs commit: src/sys/conf files

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20070204032340.GI779 at funkthat.com>
            John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
: 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?

I don't think that will work.  The number of combinations is too
large, I think.  I'll have to see if it is feasable to create
foo_if.ko that all the things that use it depend on...

Warner