From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 15 20:58:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02110 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 20:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02015 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 20:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA08619; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:27:52 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA15303; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:27:51 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981016132750.C468@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:27:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nicholas Charles Brawn Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: How cam I be writing LKM ? References: <19981016121458.U468@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:54:32PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 16 October 1998 at 12:54:32 +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > 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? Sort of. > Is there going to be better dox available for them than were present > on lkm's? Probably not :-) > And where can I get some information on them now? Peter Wemm seems to be spearheading the effort. We've done some mail exchange, but I haven't had time to look at it in detail. Maybe I'll write some documentation on it, but don't hold your breath. > Shucks, just when I was getting the hang of writing them too... :\ The story is that there's not much difference. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message