Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Sat Aug 6 00:30:57 UTC 2016
Modified Files:
src/doc: TODO.modules
Log Message:
Expand discussion a bit, and provide ppp as an example way to do things.
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Index: src/doc/TODO.modules
diff -u src/doc/TODO.modules:1.4 src/doc/TODO.modules:1.5
--- src/doc/TODO.modules:1.4 Fri Aug 5 04:21:01 2016
+++ src/doc/TODO.modules Sat Aug 6 00:30:57 2016
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.4 2016/08/05 04:21:01 pgoyette Exp $ */
+/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.5 2016/08/06 00:30:57 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
@@ -16,7 +16,14 @@ christos and pgoyette.
There are ways around this (such as, having the parent
module's initialization command recursively call the module
- load code), but they're gross hacks.
+ load code), but they're often gross hacks.
+
+ Another alternative (which is used by ppp) is to provide a
+ "registration" mechanism for the "child" modules, and then when
+ the need for a specific child module is encountered, use
+ module_autoload() to load the child module. Of course, this
+ requires that the parent module know about all potentially
+ loadable children.
2. Currently, config(1) has no way to "no define" drivers
