Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:11:34 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndisgen intended to be the only way to generate ndis? Message-ID: <20050706171134.4f883789@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200507061122.26639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20050705151932.783200e6@localhost> <200507061122.26639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: > 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. Thanks for pointing this out. I have missed this design change completely. > 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. Agreed. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCy/SyoomUOj0wp30RAqsfAJ9gR0izWQvcb02WWZE3WiUvU15/8ACgkdQ5 3Bkme2imlcc3ad0lIxybM9g= =mq0M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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