Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup

[david parsons]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Jeff Garzik  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>david parsons wrote:
>>      This is not always the case;  I put all the ethernet drivers into
>>      modules for Mastodon, but I load all of them when the system starts
>>      up so I can automatically detect eth0.  It's difficult to
>>      autodetect ethernet cards when you first have to know all the
>>      details about them.
>
>grep for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.  There will be less and less need for
>that.  A good system (both hardware and OS) should not have to load a
>driver in order to do initial probing, on a modern bus.

    When given the choice between (a) tossing all my computers that use
    ISA ethernet cards (~10 boxes, and another 10 motherboards that I
    use for compatability testing) and (b) de-MacOSing the device
    drivers, I'll choose (b), along with (c: bitching about it) any
    day of the week.

                  ____
    david parsons \bi/ I could get some real modern hardware if I dicarded all
                   \/ of my ia32 machines and bought Suns, but that would take
		          a quarter of a million dollars.  Somehow I can't see
		                                             the point to this.