Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:54:31 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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Hello All , And on that day linux will loose one small person . Taf , JimL
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > > For 2.5 if things go to plan there will be no such thing as a "compiled in" > > driver. They simply are not needed with initramfs holding what were once the > > "compiled in" modules. > > This is something of a bombshell. Not necessarily a bad one, but... > > Alan, do you have *any* *freakin'* *idea* how much more complicated > the CML2 deduction engine had to be because the basic logical entity > was a tristate rather than a bool? If this plan goes through, I'm > going to be able to drop out at least 20% of the code, with most of > 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? > -- > <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> > > Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it > fulfills only a third of the role. -- Edward Abbey >
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