> > Is there meta information in a .ko file? That way you could do a kldinfo to > find out where to go for more info, etc.
There's not time to standardise this, so I would say that 3.x .ko files won't have metainformation internally, no. Certainly 4.x .ko files will carry a lot more metainformation with them, and that may include this, yes. > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:13:49AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > I've thought about this, and I think it would be a very bad idea. > > > > We want to keep this *simple*. In the case of, eg. OSS, one might > > expect: > > > > dev_oss.ko > > oss_yamaha.ko > > oss_sb16.ko > > ... > > > > There's no need to add extra crap just to identify the vendor. It > > doesn't serve any really useful purpose - we will have metainformation > > elsewhere that can be used to link modules comprising a product > > together - there's no need to duplicate it in the filename. > > -- > "Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree; that smells *awful*." > -- /usr/bin/fortune > > [Disclaimer: I speak for myself and my views are my own and not in any way to > be construed as the views of BellSouth Corporation. ] -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
