FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: Talking between modules [Was: Change of heart...]

[Erik Reid <reide@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth "Graham Gilmore":
>>
>>Well, and stop.  Still not a big deal is it?  This is the sort of
>>flexability i'd like to see.  I can knock up a new proto module, drop 
>it in,
>>restart and away it goes.  It adds itself to the list of protos and if 
>I get
>>packets that it can deal with, it does!
>
>       If there's a known function in the lower module to register a new proto 
>module, then you may not even need to restart (depending on the needs of 
>the proto module's initialization, I suppose).

We should never have to restart the machine itself, and very rare that we'd need
to restart the 'network stack', even if we do it in kernel land.

Also, debugging isn't really that hard in kernel land, if there's gdb hooks
set up, which I think newos has, at least partially.  (Requires a second
machine and a null modem cable, but <shrug>)