Is there meta information in a .ko file? That way you could do a kldinfo to
find out where to go for more info, etc.
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:13:49AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> 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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