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From: mdean <mdean@best.com>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: devfs / cdevsw
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> These are shell script that will write a driver for you and put 
> it in the  sources in /usr/src and compile a kernel with your 
> new driver.. the driver is a skelaton driver that does nothing,
> but then you can fill out the function.

I have these, it talks about conf.c in there.

What does __P() do to a function declaration? I see it in the lkm examples.
And also in .h files for c library calls apparently (pointing?) to the
kernel syscalls.