From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 15 16:57: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A9837B71A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA17451; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:09:53 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010315201249.030af110@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:13:28 -0500 To: Murray Taylor From: Dennis Subject: Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <710709BB8B02D311942E00606744181054429A@MELEXC01> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message