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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "Humprey C. Sy" <humprey@ccsread.dlsu.edu.ph>
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Subject: lkm programming
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<<On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:21:13 +0800 (HKT), "Humprey C. Sy" <humprey@ccsread.dlsu.edu.ph> said:

To: hackers@freebsd.org
Cc: questions@freebsd.org

Pick ONE, and only ONE mailing-list in the future, please.

> Can anybody point me to some direction where I might get information on 
> implementing loadable kernel modules?

Your best bet is probably to look at the sources of the ones that
already exist.  Be aware that there is quite a bit of magic going on
with the VFS LKMs, so you should probably look at something simpler
like the discard driver.

-GAWollman

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