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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:13:28 -0500
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Murray Taylor <mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ?
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.20010315201249.030af110@mail.etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <710709BB8B02D311942E00606744181054429A@MELEXC01>

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It means that they havent converted the driver to the new "bus" format and 
are still using 3.x driver types.

At 06:09 PM 03/15/2001, you wrote:
>When using 4.3-BETA cvsupped 23/mar and
>config'ed
>
>options NETGRAPH
>
>and added the sr and sppp drivers for the frame relay
>link we are establishing.
>
>Dmesg gives me this line
>
>src0: dirver is using old-style compatibility shims
>
>
>What are these shims?
>
>mjt
>
>
>
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