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From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
To: Ernie Elu <ernie@eis.net.au>
Subject: RE: Device Drivers on 3.2-RELEASE
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On 30-Jun-99 Ernie Elu wrote:
>  From reading various mail lists I understand that from the 3.0 kernel
>  onwards the drive interface to the kernel changed a lot, not doubt this is
>  why I can't get th driver to compile.
>  
>  Can someone point me to a reference on the changes, or is there some kind of
>  documentation on driver writing for FreeBSD that I can study?

"Use the source luke"

I don't know what changed network wise, but for an IO device its a fairly
simple change.. 

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