Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 May 1999 13:53:54 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Suggestion for modules.. |
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Hmmm. Tools that magically know how to configure your system are good or bad depending on what you want and how invasive the magic is. The magic needs some information about individual modules to work right, though. How about defining a "configuration description" language that describes the module's parameters, and tucking it into a section of the module image so it doesn't get lost, then letting the userland tools ask the modules how they can be configured? The language should probably be structured text, maybe something like the stuff in isapnp.conf .
This is sort of an in-between topic: it's kernel-related because it proposes a modification to how-to-make-a-module, but it's also userland because the tools will live there.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Specializing in unusual perspectives for more than twenty years.
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