From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 20 12:39:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18980 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:39:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles336.castles.com [208.214.167.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18962 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:39:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA46634; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812202037.MAA46634@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: Bill Loraine , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:18:07 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:37:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [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