Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Thu Dec 13 11:28:00 UTC 2018
Modified Files:
src/doc: TODO.modules
Log Message:
Add a note about the (lack of) correspondence between a module's name and
the name of the file from which it is loaded.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.15 -r1.16 src/doc/TODO.modules
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Modified files:
Index: src/doc/TODO.modules
diff -u src/doc/TODO.modules:1.15 src/doc/TODO.modules:1.16
--- src/doc/TODO.modules:1.15 Fri May 4 00:25:26 2018
+++ src/doc/TODO.modules Thu Dec 13 11:28:00 2018
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.15 2018/05/04 00:25:26 pgoyette Exp $ */
+/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.16 2018/12/13 11:28:00 pgoyette Exp $ */
Some notes on the limitations of our current (as of 7.99.35) module
subsystem. This list was triggered by an Email exchange between
@@ -192,3 +192,11 @@ christos and pgoyette.
invocations of module_class_init(), and it might be useful to have a
non-dependency mechanism to provide "IF module-A and module-B are
BOTH present, module-A needs to be initialized before module-B".
+
+20. (Long-ago memory rises to the surface) Note that currently there is
+ nothing that requires a module's name to correspond in any way with
+ the name of file from which the module is loaded. Thus, it is
+ possible to attempt to access device /dev/x, discover that there is
+ no such device so we autoload /stand/.../x/x.kmod and initialize
+ the module loaded, even if the loaded module is for some other
+ device entirely!
