m...@eterna.com.au (matthew green) writes: >it seems to me that if some driver depends upon altq, then >altq should simply always refuse to unload if a driver is >loaded that depends upon it. this should be an explicit >dependency, and probably implicit via symbols.
>if, say there's a fully modular system with two NICs, and >only one of them supports altq. only one of the NIC drivers >will declare a dep on altq, blocking the unload of altq >while the driver remains loaded. >if this isn't already the case, can we arrange it to be? Isn't altq going to be redesigned anyway for NET_MPSAFE ? Efforts to move it into a module might be a bit premature then. N.B. I'd just make the different queuing mechanisms loadable but keep hooks for the network drivers in the kernel itself, similar to bufq for disk drivers.
