From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 15 21:50:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (syncopation-dns.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83AF537B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:50:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 1191 invoked by uid 666); 16 Mar 2001 05:51:49 -0000 Received: from i080-148.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.80.148) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 16 Mar 2001 05:51:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3AB1A981.BBFADF65@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:49:53 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Taylor Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ? References: <710709BB8B02D311942E00606744181054429A@MELEXC01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message