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Subject: Some questions
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<<On Thu, 23 Mar 1995 16:59:36 +0100 (MET), Michael Reifenberger <root@rz-wb.fh-sw.de> said:

> - What exactly are the *_goaway(), *_externalize(), *_registerdev() 
>   routines for?
> - What are they doing?

Read kern/kern_devconf.c and be enlightened.  Then read
lsdev/{lsdev,i386}.c.

-GAWollman

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