On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > I like this idea (subdirectories) better.. it will last longer :-) > > > > It's a really bad idea, because it requires you to classify things. It > > also makes it much harder to administer. In addition, classifications > > are bad (witness the need to reorganise the kernel source tree). > > > > > You should then be able to load a module "isa/if_ed.ko" etc > > > and have it work (no leading slash). > > > > And here is a good example. Why would you want to put if_ed in the > > "ISA" category when it can be attached to both the PCI and ISA busses? > > I don't care how you classify it.. of course the "isa" category is wrong. > > I was just pointing out that having things in subdirectories > is better than having a zillion files piled into a single directory.
Not always. Consider a case when all modules are on a slow media (such as a floppy or zipfs) - then putting things in subdirs adds quite significant overhead to load/ls/search due to pathname lookups. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <ab...@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
