From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 15:11:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 556E116A41C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:11:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A408943D45 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 1046 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2005 15:11:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[83.129.3.98]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Jul 2005 15:11:27 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:11:34 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: "Daniel O'Connor" Message-ID: <20050706171134.4f883789@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200507061122.26639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20050705151932.783200e6@localhost> <200507061122.26639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Wed__6_Jul_2005_17_11_34_+0200_QVca0hcgZO7sEX6m; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndisgen intended to be the only way to generate ndis? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:11:30 -0000 --Signature_Wed__6_Jul_2005_17_11_34_+0200_QVca0hcgZO7sEX6m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Daniel O'Connor" 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. >=20 > The "old way" built the .sys and .inf files into a .ko along with if_ndis= =20 > code. >=20 > In the "new way" you build the .sys and .inf files into a .ko without any= =20 > other code. When you load it, it pulls in if_ndis which then reads the=20 > wrapped .sys and .inf file you loaded. >=20 > You can't build things the "old way" any more because the if_ndis code no= =20 > 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=20 > ndiscvt man page (and a new ndisgen page) along with some handbook change= s.=20 > It would also be fairly trivial to modify ndisgen to take some arguments. Agreed. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Signature_Wed__6_Jul_2005_17_11_34_+0200_QVca0hcgZO7sEX6m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCy/SyoomUOj0wp30RAqsfAJ9gR0izWQvcb02WWZE3WiUvU15/8ACgkdQ5 3Bkme2imlcc3ad0lIxybM9g= =mq0M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Wed__6_Jul_2005_17_11_34_+0200_QVca0hcgZO7sEX6m--