On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 22:38:34 +0100 
 Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de> wrote:

 > I agree with Chris - the gain of locator packing is small,
 > we could well live without it.

And, without locator packing, boot-time reconfig is EASY.

 > Besides this - I have the feeling that using "real" pointers
 > instead of indices into the locator array within the cfdata
 > would be a good thing - especially for loadable drivers.
 > Didn't look at the issue for a while however, so I can't back
 > it with hard arguments...
 > 
 > best regards
 > Matthias
 > 
 > 

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>