Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:49:53 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Murray Taylor <mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ? Message-ID: <3AB1A981.BBFADF65@elischer.org> References: <710709BB8B02D311942E00606744181054429A@MELEXC01>
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Murray Taylor 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
As Dennis says, it lets you know that this driver is not converted to the new
bus format. The one in -current is converted (it's in /sys/dev/if_sr I think)
it also can be compiled as a netgraph module (/sys/modules/netgraph/sync_sr/)
you may try seeing if it can be run under 4.x
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