Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/iwi Makefile src/sys/dev/iwi if_iwi.c if_iwireg.h if_iwivar.h

From: Daniel Eischen (deischen_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:44:37 -0500 (EST)
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>

    On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Warner Losh wrote:

    > > Making the driver aware of the filesystem layout is a bad idea.
    >
    > Your opinion has been noted. Repeating it often isn't going to help.
    > It has its advantages from the user point of view (I put a file here
    > and it is used, my tool of choice can always be "cp").
    >
    > > Encapsulating data into a KLD is not hard to do.
    >
    > Neither is a dozen other things that we do automatically for the
    > user. From a user point of view this is a pita. I put this file
    > here, and then I have to remember which magic tool to run to convert
    > the iwi firmware into a kld. But that's a different tool from the wi
    > driver and that's different from the iwp driver, etc.

    Not taking one side or the other... Can we use a common
    tool to convert firmware to a kld? Just pass it the
    symbol name or whatever else you need?

    I guess this makes the assumption that most firmware consists
    of just one object file. 

    -- 
DE
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