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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:19:17 +0200
From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr>
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To: Emmanuel Duros <Emmanuel.Duros@sophia.inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: net device driver as a module
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Hello,

this is done in the 4.0 version of FreeBSD

	TfH

Emmanuel Duros wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have not seen any network device driver (except for PCMCIA cards)
> loadable as a module.
> 
> Are there any reasons to that (speed) ?
> 
> Would not it be faster to write first a network device driver as a
> module (sparing lots of reboots) ?
> 
> Emmanuel
> 
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