Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:44:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Denis I. Timofeev" <timofeev@granch.ru> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (forw) Re: A question about submitting new drivers Message-ID: <200107130344.f6D3i9003496@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:14:58 CDT." <20010712221458.H6664@sneakerz.org>
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It doesn't actually make a lot of sense to bundle a driver like this with
FreeBSD; none of the developers are going to be able to test against it,
and your customers are typically going to be running against the -stable
branch anyway.
Personally, I would recommend a driver like this be built and distributed
as a KLD; it's fairly easy to package so that you can unpack and build
under /sys/modules (just put everything in the module directory).
You can also ship pre-build KLDs, making runtime loading of the driver
very straightforward. Just put the kld in /modules, and ensure that it's
named appropriately (if_snbi.ko). ifconfig will load it automatically on
the first attempt to configure the interface.
I note that you've made some modifications to the kernel MIB. You'd
probably want to keep a private copy of these mods for your driver's
internal use.
The ifconfig changes were meant to make it easier for folks like
yourselves to provide network interface drivers without having to
integrate them tightly with the kernel tree; let me know if we're still
falling short...
Regards,
Mike
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