Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 04:44:46 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> Cc: Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>, Claude Tardif <intmktg@cam.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unknown abbreviations Message-ID: <199806012044.EAA11242@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:41:53 EST." <199806011841.NAA01888@cerebus.nectar.com>
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Jacques Vidrine wrote: > I think the original poster was attempting to determine > something of the etymology of ``protosw'' and ``softc''. > Of course I can't read minds :-) though I like to pretend > to sometimes :-) > > ``protosw'' is mneumonic for ``protocol switch'', as I > pointed out previously. > > Does anyone know why ``softc'' structs are called > ``softc'' ? I'm still curious. "Soft Config" is what I seem to remember being told, it may or may not be accurate. It's the software part of the device driver state, as opposed to the hardware register state. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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