Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:10:50 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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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>
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