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From: joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (was: Re: Release of drivers etc.)
Date: 8 Mar 1993 19:33:15 +0100
Organization: SaxNet, Dresden, Germany
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References: <CGD.93Feb24023053@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1993Feb24.130019.9933@gmd.de> <C30yA8.1yx@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk>
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Keywords: device drivers
In article <C30yA8.1yx@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey) writes:
>
>Why not learn something from System V?
>
>Of course, the SysV (3.2) scheme won't work with loadable drivers - not a
>problem really yet ;)
>
In fact, some weeks ago, i've experimented with something like SysV's
idea of how to configure new drivers. i've created something which might
be called a master file, but didn't wan't to repeat the oddities of
SysV. So my version is more readable (parsed by a yacc parser), and i
dislike the idea of pre-assigning *all* major numbers (but included
the opportunity of doing so). It's a very early version, i ain't got
enough time to complete it (yet). If someone is interested to discuss
about this, please mail me.
J"org
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