From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 31 14: 7:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74C914C36 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 14:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA70480; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 21:59:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA08621; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:26:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:26:14 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Nik Clayton , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos? Message-ID: <19990731192614.A7118@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990730140411.A66986@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990730234847.D4337@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990730234847.D4337@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:48:47PM +0200 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > * Nik Clayton (nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]: > > Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html > > > > still correct? I know there have been changes to this area of the tree > > over the past 6 months or so, but I don't know how much of that document > > is still appropriate for what we have now. > > As far as I have been able to learn and glance from Bill Paul and some other > device driver guru's too much has changed in order for it to be correct > under CURRENT. > > A rewrite is on my to-do list for the PDP, however, should people feel like > they want to rewrite it, be my guest and cc: me on any submissions so I can > include it in the PDP. Else I will start this ASAHP. How does the attached patch grab you? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=p Index: ddwg.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 ddwg.sgml --- ddwg.sgml 1998/06/18 13:20:41 1.6 +++ ddwg.sgml 1999/07/31 18:25:12 @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ +2.x specific + +

Due to changes in FreeBSD over time, this guide is only accurate as +regards FreeBSD 2.x. A replacement guide for FreeBSD 3.x and beyond +is being written. Please contact Jeroen Ruigrok Overview

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