From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 15 19:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22814 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22790 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au) Received: (from ncb05@localhost) by banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id MAA05043; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:54:32 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:54:32 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: How cam I be writing LKM ? In-Reply-To: <19981016121458.U468@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: [snip] > The best thing to understand is: now is a very bad time to write an > LKM. They'll be going away and replaced by KLDs when the kernel goes > to ELF (in the next few weeks). This is news to me, however as i don't keep up with -current and -stable lists, it's not really a suprise. Ok, so are KLD's going to be present in 3.0-RELEASE? Is there going to be better dox available for them than were present on lkm's? And where can I get some information on them now? Shucks, just when I was getting the hang of writing them too... :\ Nick -- Email: ncb@poboxes.com - http://www.poboxes.com/ncb Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message