Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 17:31:19 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mdean <mdean@best.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs / cdevsw Message-ID: <199710040801.RAA00530@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 1997 19:17:46 MST." <Pine.SGI.3.95.971003191525.1528A-100000@shellx.best.com>
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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. It's archaic junk left over from the days of pre-ANSI compilers. Use it if you are adding to an existing source file (ie. maintain consistency), but do not use it in new code. mikehome | help
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