Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:22:20 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Subject: Re: ndisgen intended to be the only way to generate ndis? Message-ID: <200507061122.26639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050705151932.783200e6@localhost> References: <20050705151932.783200e6@localhost>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:49, Fabian Keil wrote: > AFAIK, nobody has announced that the "old" way is death, > therefore I would like to know if the breakage is intentional > and if it is, if there's a technical reason why these methods > can no longer coexists. The "old way" built the .sys and .inf files into a .ko along with if_ndis code. In the "new way" you build the .sys and .inf files into a .ko without any other code. When you load it, it pulls in if_ndis which then reads the wrapped .sys and .inf file you loaded. You can't build things the "old way" any more because the if_ndis code no longer expects to be linked to a .sys file. I suggest the best approach would be to submit improved documentation for the ndiscvt man page (and a new ndisgen page) along with some handbook changes. It would also be fairly trivial to modify ndisgen to take some arguments. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCyzla5ZPcIHs/zowRAtfpAJ4nA4KOO4hxmwMHtA4+IzduRA4YNACeL/6B o7RtKpwQpmlKvv4O6f2fDbQ= =umBB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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