From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jun 1 11:42:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02120 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (cerebus.nectar.com [204.27.67.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02112 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@cerebus.nectar.com) Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (localhost.communique.net [127.0.0.1]) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01888; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:41:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806011841.NAA01888@cerebus.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://pgp.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x094724A9 From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <19980601192301.42902@flix.net> References: <35721ACA.A51B7BD4@cam.org> <199806010458.XAA27364@cerebus.nectar.com> <19980601192301.42902@flix.net> Subject: Re: Unknown abbreviations To: Chrisy Luke cc: Claude Tardif , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:41:53 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I think the original poster was attempting to determine something of the etymology of ``protosw'' and ``softc''. Of course I can't read minds :-) though I like to pretend to sometimes :-) ``protosw'' is mneumonic for ``protocol switch'', as I pointed out previously. Does anyone know why ``softc'' structs are called ``softc'' ? I'm still curious. Jacques Vidrine On 1 June 1998 at 19:23, Chrisy Luke wrote: [snip] > Jacques Vidrine wrote (on Jun 01): > > softc = (I don't know, but would like to) > > As for softc, it's a generic name given to a structure that exists in > almost every kernel driver. [snip] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNXL18TeRhT8JRySpAQEpfAQAqq1HlvDFgjOmRHTbgHriXCgWTj+tLtkH F9YJQFulpxF+MFteQZ17WIm1FMuQg5elzjx1coImaTlOodbBQPE0TRVSEYOQ1Ahb gOzU3fxeg3S7QM9X6uqPEk1NpRkGpXXXBqQZiJylNoF6pgJFfSHKjNWAzCvi9PIw rjygWTpYy5g= =XlZu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message