From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jun 1 13:45:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29826 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29648 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:45:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id EAA11242; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 04:44:46 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199806012044.EAA11242@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jacques Vidrine cc: Chrisy Luke , Claude Tardif , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unknown abbreviations In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:41:53 EST." <199806011841.NAA01888@cerebus.nectar.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 04:44:46 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message