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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:54:32 +1000 (EST)
From:      Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How cam I be writing LKM ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810161249200.2820-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19981016121458.U468@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

[snip]
> The best thing to understand is: now is a very bad time to write an
> LKM.  They'll be going away and replaced by KLDs when the kernel goes
> to ELF (in the next few weeks).  

This is news to me, however as i don't keep up with -current and -stable
lists, it's not really a suprise.

Ok, so are KLD's going to be present in 3.0-RELEASE? Is there going to
be better dox available for them than were present on lkm's? And where
can I get some information on them now?

Shucks, just when I was getting the hang of writing them too... :\

Nick

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