Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:37:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Bill Loraine <wjlora@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199812202037.MAA46634@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:18:07 %2B0100." <XFMail.981220171807.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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> [cc:-ed to hackers, removed from doc] > > On 17-Dec-98 Bill Loraine wrote: > > In the Tutorial "Writing device drivers for FreeBSD" on the Standard > > Model steps required for adding a driver, step 2 Make room in conf.c - > > Which the tutorial says is located in "/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/conf.c" on > > my operating system files(my hard drive with FreeBSD installed) I don't > > have a conf.c file at all much less in that location. > > I think conf.c needs to be renamed to autoconf.c. Then again, I might be wrong. > Someone care to update/verify my assumption? conf.c was exterminated lo, so many moons ago that I can't remember. It used to contain a static table of device driver entry points; truly a bad and sucky thing; they're now generated more or less automatically - still not perfect, but certainly less sucky. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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