Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Assorted questions Message-ID: <69V4UI3@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 23 Jul 90 18:33:15 GMT References: <628@philica.ica.philips.nl> <879@sce.carleton.ca> <636@philica.ica.philips.nl> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <636@philica.ica.philips.nl> adrie@beitel.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen) writes: > My SCSI task for Minix on the SparcStation consists of two > files, one header and one C file, with a total length of 30KB. The SCSI > driver for SunOS 4.0.3c is contained in 37 files, scaterred over 6 > directories for a total of more than 350KB. And this is one of the reasons I prefer System V to BSD. Try three files: a header file, a Driver file and a space.c file (which contains config parameters). Not that I don't prefer a message-passing kernel, but you don't have to go that route to get good modularity. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`