> > Well whistle is giving htis away so we don'tthink it should
> > be whistle_xxx
> > any more than the kernel should be UCB/...
> > It occur to me that eventually every single device driver
> > will be a KLD
> > an also a lot of other things besides...
> > there are going to be a LOT of files in /modules....
>
> Ok, in this case maybe it doesn't apply but in general we should
> determine what the guidelines for third party module developers should
> be to avoid namespace clashes. I though a FreeBSD prefix for modules
> shipped as part of FreeBSD would be useful to list all those modules
> that are *not* third party supplied when you've got a directory full of
> the things.
I've thought about this, and I think it would be a very bad idea.
We want to keep this *simple*. In the case of, eg. OSS, one might
expect:
dev_oss.ko
oss_yamaha.ko
oss_sb16.ko
...
There's no need to add extra crap just to identify the vendor. It
doesn't serve any really useful purpose - we will have metainformation
elsewhere that can be used to link modules comprising a product
together - there's no need to duplicate it in the filename.
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